AN-2? Down in DRC?
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AN-2? Down in DRC?
Cargo plane crashes in DRC
18 May 2007
GOMA, DRCongo - Three people have been killed when their light cargo plane caught fire after take-off in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo and crashed.
"All three on board died," said Selemani Lumoo, an official of the Safe Air Company. He said the pilot was Russian and the two others were Congolese.
He said a witness told him that the plane caught fire just after taking off from the eastern town of Walikale and crashed into a nearby forest.
18 May 2007
GOMA, DRCongo - Three people have been killed when their light cargo plane caught fire after take-off in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo and crashed.
"All three on board died," said Selemani Lumoo, an official of the Safe Air Company. He said the pilot was Russian and the two others were Congolese.
He said a witness told him that the plane caught fire just after taking off from the eastern town of Walikale and crashed into a nearby forest.
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It is the L-410
http://www.monuc.org/news.aspx?newsID=14597
http://www.monuc.org/news.aspx?newsID=14597
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So Wali has claimed another. 700m road, wide enough to have a meter or so on each side with about 5m clearance off each wing. What a picnic. The guys are always are always overloading out of there too. Seems it's the culture up there though. The more KG the more $ Yevgeny gets to take back to Mocow. Last time it was also a L410. Not sure about the LET but they used to ask us to take 2000kg plus 3 pax out at a time in a similar a/c...madness. Never did it though.
Not ure of how to post pics but have some photos of the place.
Not ure of how to post pics but have some photos of the place.
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I.R, you're right, could happen at FAJS if you caught on fire! Chances are though it had to do with the 
guys haul in and out of Wali. Not talking bout the rocks but the drums of petrol/diesel, lead acid batteries and other dogey stuff these guys just chuck in the back for a few $$.We once saw a LET going in there with drums of Diesel and detonators for the mine there in the same load...
guys haul in and out of Wali. Not talking bout the rocks but the drums of petrol/diesel, lead acid batteries and other dogey stuff these guys just chuck in the back for a few $$.We once saw a LET going in there with drums of Diesel and detonators for the mine there in the same load...
