Posted on 11/06/2022 1:53:31 PM PST by BenLurkin
The country’s Prime Minister, Kassim Majaliwa, said officials believe all bodies have been recovered from the airplane.
“We’re starting to pull out the luggage and personal items from the aircraft. A team of doctors and security agencies have started the process of identifying the dead and notifying the families,” Majaliwa said.
The airline confirmed the death toll and amended the number of survivors down to 24 in an updated statement on Sunday evening. Earlier, the carrier as well as local officials had said that 26 of the 43 people on board had been rescued.
“Precision Air extends its deepest sympathies to the families and friends of the passenger and crew involved in this tragic incident. The company will strive to provide them with information and whatever assistance they will require in their difficult time,” the airline said.
“The names of passengers and crew on board the aircraft will not be released until all next-of-kin have been notified,” it added.
The flight, including 39 passengers and four crew members, had taken off from Tanzania’s commercial capital of Dar es Salaam and was headed to the town of Bukoba before it plunged into Lake Victoria as it was preparing to land.
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Previously authorities said 26 of the 43 people on board the flight from the country’s biggest city, Dar es Salaam, had been rescued and taken to hospital.
“We have managed to save quite a number of people,” Kagera province police commander William Mwampaghale told journalists.
“When the aircraft was about 100 metres (328ft) midair, it encountered problems and bad weather. It was raining and the plane plunged into the water. Everything is under control,” he said.
Information on the pprune website suggests the plane may have aborted one attempted landing and this was a second go, the approach is over Lake Victoria and the aircraft landed short in the lake (storms in the region), most probably survived the landing but some including two pilots perished from drowning as the front end of the plane was submerged; pilots were in radio contact after the faulty landing but indicated they were running out of oxygen. Two flight attendants probably located in the rear of the plane were among the survivors.
A few ATR crashes lately, not good.
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