Plane crash in Lake Victoria, Tanzania

Dar es salaam. 26 passengers have been rescued from a plane that crashed into Lake Victoria in Tanzania’s northwestern Kagera region on Sunday morning. Kagera regional commissioner Albert Chalmila said the plane flying from Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam to Bukoba Airport in the Kagera region was carrying 43 people. Chalmila said 39 of the 43 people on board the plane were passengers, two pilots and two cabin crew, adding that rescue teams were still trying to rescue 13 passengers trapped in the deadly plane belonging to a private airline, Precision Air. are working.

While the rescued passengers have been taken to hospitals, officials are still contacting the pilots trapped inside the plane, he said. Chalmila said the plane crashed into Lake Victoria, the world’s second largest freshwater lake shared by Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda, near Bukoba airport at around 8:20 a.m. local time (0520 GMT). “As we continue the rescue operation, the authorities in the Kagera region have informed the top leaders of the country, including the prime minister, about the plane crash,” he said. President Samia Suluhu Hassan said she was shocked by the news of the accident. (IANS)