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Rescue operations were underway successful Tanzania connected Sunday aft a level carrying 39 passengers, including an infant, crashed into Africa’s largest lake, the hose said successful a statement.
At slightest 19 radical were killed, the country’s premier curate Kassim Majaliwa said.
Out of the 39 passengers connected committee the Precision Air flight, 26 had been rescued and taken to hospital, it said successful a statement. "We are yet to corroborate the fig of fatalities from the country of the accident," it said, adding that 4 unit members were besides connected committee the flight.
“We person managed to prevention rather a fig of people,” Kagera state constabulary commandant William Mwampaghale told journalists.
“When the craft was astir 100 meters (328 feet) midair, it encountered problems and atrocious weather. It was raining and the level plunged into the water,” helium said. “Everything is nether control.”
Footage verified by NBC News showed the level astir wholly submerged successful the water with rescue boats astir its greenish and yellowish tail.
Tanzanian Precision Air said successful a statement on Facebook that its formation PW494, flying from the commercialized hub of Dar es Salaam connected the eastbound seashore of the country, was "involved successful an mishap arsenic it was approaching Bukoba airport." The hose said the craft was a ATR42-500 — a twin-jet turboprop manufactured by the Italian-French institution ATR.
Bukoba is connected the occidental borderline of Lake Victoria, which is connected the borderline with Uganda and Kenya.
"The rescue squad has been dispatched to the scene," Precision Air said.
“I person received with sadness the quality of the mishap involving Precision Air’s plane,” Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu wrote connected Twitter. “Let’s beryllium calm astatine this infinitesimal erstwhile rescuers are continuing with the rescue ngo portion praying to God to assistance us.”
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