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To: BenLurkin

https://news.sky.com/story/passenger-plane-crashes-into-lake-victoria-as-it-was-coming-in-to-land-at-tanzania-airport-12739892
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.


3 posted on 11/06/2022 2:08:09 PM PST by Doctor Congo
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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.


4 posted on 11/06/2022 3:56:37 PM PST by Peter ODonnell (Cultural elder -- problem is, that only counts for every other culture)
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