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News Source: News 24
| about 1 year ago
South African consular officials are trying to verify the identity of a 23-year-old pilot killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo with a view to returning his remains to SA, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday. Rudi Knoetze was...
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News Source: News 24
| about 1 year ago
All 17 people aboard a humanitarian aid plane died when it crashed into a mountain in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the country said on Wednesday. Indian employed by the Office for the Coordination...
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News Source: Macleans
| about 1 year ago
Speaking from the Congolese capital of Kinshasa, Mills said the Levis, Que., native was recently hired as an expert on political governance and was providing guidance to provincial officials in the country. Mills said he had spent five years in the...
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News Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune
| about 1 year ago
A humanitarian aid flight carrying 17 people crashed while trying to land during a storm in remote eastern Congo and all aboard were feared dead Tuesday, officials said. U.N. helicopters found the crash site — about nine miles from the plane's...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| about 1 year ago
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed his deep sadness on Tuesday over the crash of an aid plane in the area of Bukavu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). "His thoughts are with the families and colleagues of those...
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News Source: Voice of America
| about 1 year ago
The United Nations reports a humanitarian aid flight carrying 15 passengers and two crew crashed in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, 15 kilometers northwest of the airstrip at Bukavu in South Kivu Monday afternoon. The U.S.-based group that...
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News Source: Asian Age
| about 1 year ago
A humanitarian aid flight carrying 17 people crashed on a ridge in eastern Congo, and the US-based group that operated the route said on Tuesday there appeared to be no survivors. The 21-seat Beechcraft 1900 aircraft went missing in bad weather late...
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News Source: Washington Post
| about 1 year ago
The Beechcraft 1900 plane took off from the Congolese city of Kinsangani around 4 p.m. Monday and crashed into a ridge in stormy weather about nine miles northwest of the town of Bukavu, said Lt...Jean-Paul Dietrich, a spokesman for the U.N. mission...
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News Source: South Africa News
| about 1 year ago
The plane was found 15 kilometres northwest of Bukavu airport...The US-based company which contracted the plane, Air Serv, said in a statement there were "no known survivors". The company provides air transport for the international humanitarian...
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News Source: CNN
| about 1 year ago
Search and rescue crews were not immediately able to land their helicopter in the area and determine whether anyone survived the crash in the east of the country, said Christope Illemassene, spokesman for the U.N...But Air Serv International, the...