19 people died in the plane crash in Tanzania where a Precision Air Atr 42-500 crashed into the waters of Lake Victoria, the largest in Africa.

On board there were 43 people (39 passengers plus the two pilots and two crew members), 24 survivors.

The country is in mourning while investigations have begun to clarify the causes of the tragedy.

The first to arrive on site were the fishermen who then raised the alarm.

The aircraft was approaching the city of Bukoba after departing from Dar es Salam, then crashing when it was about 100 meters to the airport runway.

Precision Air is Tanzania's largest private airline, and is partly owned by Kenya Airways.

Just five years ago another plane crash shook the African country: an aircraft belonging to a safari company crashed in northern Tanzania with a death toll of 11. In March 2019, an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi crashed six minutes after take-off in a field southeast of the Ethiopian capital, killing all 157 people on board. Years earlier, in 2007, it was instead the turn of a Kenya Airways flight, which fell into a swamp. 114 the dead.

(Unioneonline / ss)

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