Small airliner crashes into homes in DR Congo
November 24, 2019
The operator of the twin-engine Dornier-228 aircraft, the local airline Busy Bee, said the flight had 17 passengers and two crew members on board.
The 19 people on board were among the at least 26 to die in the incident, authorities said on Sunday.
The crash site was among residential homes near Goma's international airport.
The Congolese media outlet actualite.cd said the airline regularly ran medical evacuations in remote areas of eastern DRC.
Fire tenders of Goma city and the UN peacekeeping mission MONUSCO were at the scene of the crash, said actualite.cd.
Sunday's flight was bound for Beni, 350 kilometers (220 miles) north of Goma.
In October, a cargo plane operating from Goma bound for Kinshasa crashed an hour after takeoff in Congo's central province of Sankuru, killing all eight passengers and crew.
On its catalog of airlines banned from operating in Europe, the European Union lists 21 Congolese airlines, including Busy Bee.
ipj/ng (Reuters, AFP; AP)