Yet, another aircraft down in the Congo!
As per BBC reports.

Quote from the BBC
"The An-28 is a relatively modern Antonov plane, which first entered service in 1969. Most An-28s were built in Poland."



I would hate to think what the BBC considered to be old technology...........

Quote from the BBC
"The An-28 is a relatively modern Antonov plane, which first entered service in 1969.
But the first serial aircraft was built only in 1983!

Seem like the worst An-28 crash in terms of fatalities, 17 reported, more An-28 crashes here http://aviation-safety.net/database/dblist.php?field=typecode&var=04F%&cat=%1&sorteer=datekey&page=1

This truly has to be the worst area of the world for aircraft accidients in a long time! Whilst not wanting to make this sound like an east v's west thing, the majority of accidients seems to involve former Russian type aircraft. Is there any form of maintanence inspection in the region at all, or as I have said before, do a handful of greenbacks bypass this sytem, thus safety is an expensive unneccessary requirement? I have spent much time working in and around the African continent, although not directly the Congo, but corruption and bribe's are commonplace.

Usually plane crashes in Africa tend to stay in the Africa forum and not gravitate to other forums. Apart from the occational CFIT involving 'western' aircraft, the large majority of aircraft accidents and incidents (in Africa) are Russian. An Antonov-8 pilot proudly informed me his plane had gone 10000hrs without an inspection of the engines. I last saw his Liberian registered plane off the runway at Kalemie (DRC)!!

Most reputable operators take their planes to Nairobi or to SA for scheduled maintenance. Whether it's an overloaded cargo plane shooting off the end of the runway at Kinshasa into a crowded market killing 100's, or ramps opening on IL76's in flight with passengers sucked out the back to their deaths, nobody cares. The media attention is elsewhere now.

In the D.R.C. it is indeed Dollars solving each and every problem. Just came from there a couple of days ago. N'Djili, Kinshasa's international airport is a huge open air museum. TriStars, Viscounts, AN-2s, Electras, everything you can imagine.
It's even worse on N'Dolo, Kinshasa's second airport. Those DC-3s looking like scrap are actually flying...
Congo is one of the last places in the world I would take a scheduled domestic flight!

Congo is one of the last places in the world I would take a scheduled domestic flight!
and that's where I started my carreer.
Best experience of my life :{

In the D.R.C. it is indeed Dollars solving each and every problem. Just came from there a couple of days ago. N'Djili, Kinshasa's international airport is a huge open air museum. TriStars, Viscounts, AN-2s, Electras, everything you can imagine.
It's even worse on N'Dolo, Kinshasa's second airport. Those DC-3s looking like scrap are actually flying...
Congo is one of the last places in the world I would take a scheduled domestic flight!

Gerpress - I worked at N'Dolo about ten years ago for Air Kasai/TAZ. Who's operating the DC3s now?
You're right about safety; there seemed to be a fatal accident at least once a month and I can't imagine it's improved any.