Crash in Mwanza (TZ)

[Yabon]

Hi guys,

Yesterday night, at 23h40, an IL-76 crashed in Victoria Lake.
It seems they try to take-off on 30(as always overloaded) but couldn't even raise the nose wheel...
Only remain the wings floating at about 800m from the shoreline...They found a piece of cockipt panel...
Rumours said that it was a first time for the crew and they were drunk...

Try to put some pics soon...

Cheers and fly safe!

[B Sousa]

Come now. A Drunk crew on a Russian Aircraft............That could never happen.........

[Maurice Chavez]

From www.iol.co.za

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By Helen Nyambura

Dar Es Salaam - Tanzanian divers scoured Lake Victoria on Thursday for signs of eight crew members of a Ukrainian cargo plane that plunged into the water shortly after take-off, provincial authorities said.

The wreckage of the Ilyushin-76 that crashed late on Wednesday was visible from the Tanzanian shore of Africa's biggest lake, which the country shares with Uganda and Kenya.

"We still have divers trying to establish whether there are bodies trapped underneath," Zelothe Stephen, the regional police commissioner in the Tanzanian lakeside town of Mwanza, told reporters.

Regional officials said the plane with the registration code ERIBR belongs to Air Transport Incorporation of Ukraine. It carried 50 tons of fish bound for Croatia via the Sudanese capital Khartoum.

The cause of the crash is not clear.

"We are launching an operation to pull out the wreckage. We don't see any sign of life," Daniel Ole Njoolay, a regional commissioner from Mwanza, told reporters.

"It crashed into the lake immediately after the takeoff. It happened at 11.07 at night," Njoolay said. "Much of the body is sunk but the wings are floating. We can see the wreckage, it's about two kilometres from shore."

The plane had a pilot and a crew of seven, whose nationalities were not immediately clear.

Last week, a cargo plane contracted by Ethiopian Airlines crashed into Lake Victoria when trying to land at Uganda's Entebbe airport. The pilot and crew were seriously injured but survived.
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Scoreboard: Entebbe 2 Mwanza 2

[Yabon]

Hi!

They found 4 crew bodies yesterday afternoon...but still looking for the other...
Seems the main frame is separeted from the wings..
For your info, operations of search underwater are conducted by a private drilling company (Stanley mining)...Tz has no manpower and equipment to do it!!!

See u

[lone Falcon]

yeah man,

Mwanza has a record on crashes into the lake, including overloaded Sea ferries.

despite of all this they still dont have rescue services, and my guess is they never will!

Pole to the Russian/Ukrainian crew, maybe they will work the performance figures right next time, cause they wont stop the overloading business for sure.

cheers All

[Gunship]

From : Planes.cz http://www.planes.cz/hungary/default.asp?jazyk=en

Airline Transport Inc.'s IL76 crashed into Lake Victoria. The IL-76 registered as ER-IBR (a well-known aircraft in Hungary) took off from Mwanza airport with 50 tonnes of fish on board. Two minutes later -as they were unable to gain height on take-off- ended up sub-merged in Lake Victoria. The aircraft was on the regular fish run to Croatia with fuel stops at Khartoum and Benghazi.All 8 crew members were killed. It wasn't the first occurence with the Moldavian airline. ER-IBP was impounded by the Hungarian CAA for several days. ER-IBM crashed at Dushambe in December. One crew member of ER-IBW was sucked out in flight over Saudi Arabia in December.

[Yabon]

Thanks "Gunship"...excellent information!
But "lone falcon", i'm pretty sure they don't work on the figures at all...
And i heard from "tunza lodge", they weren't drunk and were pretty used to Mwanza...so we come back to a basic misjudgement of perf...

See U!