colmac747
6th Sep 2005, 13:19
KINSHASA, 6 September (IRIN) - An Antonov 26 aircraft crashed at the town of Isiro in the Democratic Republic of Congo's northeastern province of Orientale, killing eleven people, a UN spokesman said.
The Soviet-era propeller aircraft was approaching Isiro's landing strip in poor visibility and hit a tree before crashing 1,500 metres short of the threshold, Kemal Saika, the spokesman for the UN Mission in the DRC, said. The aircraft was flying from Beni, in North-Kivu Province, to Isiro.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/bb57ab23a000164aaf7d5e69bbde7773.htm
The Soviet-era propeller aircraft was approaching Isiro's landing strip in poor visibility and hit a tree before crashing 1,500 metres short of the threshold, Kemal Saika, the spokesman for the UN Mission in the DRC, said. The aircraft was flying from Beni, in North-Kivu Province, to Isiro.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/bb57ab23a000164aaf7d5e69bbde7773.htm