Six dead as UN aircraft crashes at Kinshasa airport

Thirty-two people died when a UN plane crashed as it tried to land in a storm in the Democratic Republic of Congo capital, a UN spokesman said.One person on the plane survived one of the worst disasters ever involving UN transport."We can now confirm that there was only one survivor from the 33 people on the MONUSCO plane which crashed today," UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.The Fokker 100 plane, run by the UN mission in DR Congo, MONUSCO, smashed to pieces when it hit the ground as the pilot tried to land in torrential rain, witnesses said.

A plane crashed in western Democratic Republic of Congo Wednesday, killing at least 19 people although two survived, the deputy governor of Bandundu province told AFP.The plane from Kinshasa crashed just before 1200 GMT after being unable to land at an airport in Bandundu city and apparently running out of fuel, Vicky Mboso Muteba said."They have brought out the people, we have 19 bodies in the morgue and two survivors," he said.The Let-410 aircraft was operated by private Congo company Silair.

CHARLESVILLE, Liberia — Eleven bodies were pulled from the wreckage of a military plane that crashed in Liberia, with Guinea’s army chief of staff and top military officers among its passengers, officials said Monday. The military officers were on their way to attend Liberia’s Armed Forces Day celebrations, when the plane went down between 7 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. in Charlesville, near Liberia’s largest airport and some 45 kilometers (28 miles) south of Monrovia, the capital.

MOSCOW — A passenger airliner careered off the runway at Russia’s third-busiest airport and partly onto a highway while landing on Saturday, broke into pieces and caught fire, killing at least four people. Officials said there were eight people aboard the Tu-204 belonging to Russian airline Red Wings that was flying back from the Czech Republic without passengers to its home at Vnukovo Airport.

At least 20 people were killed after a plane flown by the Belgian head of a local airline crashed while trying to land in western Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said.The Filair Czech-made twin turboprop crashed Wednesday afternoon at Bandundu after a 300-kilometre (200-mile) flight from the capital Kinshasa, and apparently running out of fuel, Vicky Mboso Muteba said."They have brought out the people, we have 19 bodies in the morgue," said Mboso, the deputy governor of Bandundu province, northeast of Kinshasa.One of two survivors later died in hospital.

Thirty-two people died when a UN plane crashed in the Democratic Republic of Congo capital on Monday, a UN spokesman said, giving the first official toll."We can now confirm that there was only one survivor from the 33 people on the MONUSCO plane which crashed today," UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.An AFP journalist had previously reported seeing at least 16 bodies being taken from the scene of the crash at Kinshasa airport.

An Air India Express plane overshot a runway and crashed in flames Saturday in southern India, killing 158 people as a handful of survivors managed to scramble from the burning wreckage.Officials said the Boeing 737-800, carrying 160 passengers and six crew on a flight from Dubai, careered off the end of the "table-top" runway at Bajpe airport and plunged into a forested gorge where it was engulfed in flames.Survivors described hearing a loud thud shortly after touchdown and said the main fuselage broke into two before filling with fire and thick smoke.

An Air India Express plane overshot a runway and crashed in flames Saturday in southern India, killing 158 people as a handful of survivors managed to scramble from the burning wreckage.Officials said the Boeing 737-800, carrying 160 passengers and six crew on a flight from Dubai, careered off the end of the "table-top" runway at Bajpe airport and plunged into a forested gorge where it was engulfed in flames.Survivors described hearing a loud thud shortly after touchdown and said the main fuselage broke into two before filling with fire and thick smoke.