Today 120 passengers died, they fell out of cargo IL76 plane while it was 33 000 feet over the ground. Cargo door opened and all passengers went out. Plane landed safley in Kinshasa after this.
It is such a hell, people use Ukranian IL76 CARGO Transporters in Africa for passenger flights.
More than 120 people were sucked out of a transport plane to their deaths when its massive rear cargo door burst open at 33,000 feet
The aircraft was carrying up to 200 policemen and their families across the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday night.
Airport officials in Kinshasa, say 129 passengers died when the cargo doors of the Russian built Ilyushin 76 burst away from the jet.
"The door opened after the hydraulic system failed," said a Congolese official.
Kaki Bin Kraut, a Congolese government spokesman, would only confirm seven people had been killed near the southern city of Mbuji-Mayi.
Officials are investigating the possibility of other casualties, he added.
But officials at Kinshasa international airport insist 129 people had died.
After the accident occurred - 45 minutes into the flight - the pilots managed to turn back and land the airplane in the capital, said Defence Minister Irung Awan.
Nine survivors are being treated for minor injuries and shock at Kinshasa General Hospital, said Kabamba Mbwebwe, chief doctor at the hospital's emergency ward.
"They were traumatised and spoke of their baggage flying everywhere," he said.
The plane had been chartered to transport Congolese police and their families from Kinshasa to the south-eastern town of Lubumbashi, a diamond centre.
It is such a hell, people use Ukranian IL76 CARGO Transporters in Africa for passenger flights.
More than 120 people were sucked out of a transport plane to their deaths when its massive rear cargo door burst open at 33,000 feet
The aircraft was carrying up to 200 policemen and their families across the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday night.
Airport officials in Kinshasa, say 129 passengers died when the cargo doors of the Russian built Ilyushin 76 burst away from the jet.
"The door opened after the hydraulic system failed," said a Congolese official.
Kaki Bin Kraut, a Congolese government spokesman, would only confirm seven people had been killed near the southern city of Mbuji-Mayi.
Officials are investigating the possibility of other casualties, he added.
But officials at Kinshasa international airport insist 129 people had died.
After the accident occurred - 45 minutes into the flight - the pilots managed to turn back and land the airplane in the capital, said Defence Minister Irung Awan.
Nine survivors are being treated for minor injuries and shock at Kinshasa General Hospital, said Kabamba Mbwebwe, chief doctor at the hospital's emergency ward.
"They were traumatised and spoke of their baggage flying everywhere," he said.
The plane had been chartered to transport Congolese police and their families from Kinshasa to the south-eastern town of Lubumbashi, a diamond centre.
