Asshole racist traitor.
On Sun, 25 Nov 2018 18:32:52 -0600, "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> wrote:
>"The aircraft failed to gain altitude after taking off from N'Dolo Airport
>and ran off the runway and crashed into a market square. The plane was
>possibly overloaded. The aircraft certification was revoked and crew did not
>have authorization to fly. The number killed on the ground varies widely
>from different sources. The number 225 is derived from the Weekly Mail and
>Guardian in an article covering the court trial of the pilots, charging them
>with the deaths of 225 people."
>http://www.planecrashinfo.com/1996/1996-1.htm
>
>"The An-32 freighter plane couldn't gain height after take-off from
>Kinshasa-N'Dolo Airport. The crew elected to abort the take-off, but the
>aircraft overran the runway by 600m and crashed into a market square.
>Unconfirmed reports say the aircraft was overloaded by 595 pounds. The
>aircraft was owned by Moscow Airways and was also flown by a Russian crew.
>African Air wasn't authorized to operate this flight, and has therefore
>borrowed authorization papers from Scibe Airlift."
>http://aviation-safety.net/database/1996/960108-0.htm
>
>
>Kinshasa, Rep. Dem. of the Congo (former Zaire) 8 January 1996. Airport of
>N'Dolo. Russian airplane (Antonov) overload does not succeed to take off. It
>crashes into a local market at the end of the takeoff track. Approximately
>600 died.
>
>Zairians say fatal flight unauthorized
>
>Nearly 300 dead from Monday's crash
>
>January 9, 1996
>
>KINSHASA, Zaire (CNN) -- Preliminary reports indicate the plane involved in
>Zaire's worst-ever aviation disaster may have been overloaded and flying
>without authorization.
>
>At least 297 people were killed Monday, when the Russian-built Antonov 32
>cargo plane plowed through a downtown market just seconds after taking off
>from Kinshasa's Ndolo airport.
>
>Red Cross officials told state media Tuesday that the death toll could rise.
>They said 160 other people in the crowded marketplace were injured.
>
>The government announced two days of national mourning and grounded cargo
>flights indefinitely.
>
>Government officials Tuesday condemned what they called lax safety
>standards.
>
>Transport Minister Bernardin Munguldeaka told Radio Zaire the plane was
>flying at least 600 pounds overweight. Airport authorities said that it was
>carrying nearly 6,000 pounds of engine oil, wheat flour and salted fish. It
>was bound for Angola and Jonas Savimbi's UNITA rebel group there, they said.
>
>The head of the Zairian pilots union said that the plane was more than 35
>years old.
>
>Zairian officials said the plane was owned by African Air, one of several
>private charter companies operating in Zaire. Business executives,
>politicians and others who travel frequently depend on such companies
>because the state-run carriers offer only sparse schedules, limited routes
>and unreliable service. Zaire is one of the countries whose airplanes are
>banned from serving the United States because of safety concerns.
>
>Information Minister Masegabio Nzanzu said African Air did not have proper
>authorization for Monday's flight, and the company's owner had borrowed
>authorization papers from another charter company called Scibeair.
>
>Nzanzu blamed the accident on Scibeair and said the government would demand
>it pay compensation to the victims. The government itself said it would pay
>for funerals, which are to begin Wednesday.
>
>The crash was the second in less than a month involving a Zaire-based cargo
>jet, and the sixth west African jet crash in recent months. More than 400
>people have died in the crashes.
>
>Kinshasa's state-run hospitals are not prepared to deal with a disaster of
>this magnitude. Government mismanagement and corruption have left them
>lacking in basic equipment and medicines. The city's main hospital turned
>away wounded Monday because there weren't enough supplies.
>
>The four Russian pilots survived the crash, including one who suffered minor
>injuries and was hospitalized. Authorities said the three pilots who walked
>away uninjured were held in protective custody overnight by police because
>there was concern that angry crowds might attack them.
>
>"The plane just piled into the market," said John Escodi, the public affairs
>officer at the U.S. Embassy in Kinshasa. "It was the worst possible time for
>that market because it was very busy and it's located right at the end of
>the runway, across the street from the runway."
>
>On December 18, a jet operated by Zaire's Trans Service Airlift, another
>charter company, crashed in Angola, killing at least 136 people.
>
>On December 3, a Cameroon Airlines Boeing 737 on a commercial flight slammed
>into swamps while trying to land at Cameroon's international airport, and 72
>people died. Three Nigerian jets also have crashed in recent months, the
>latest in November.
>
>http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9601/zaire_crash/01-09/
>
>
>
>250 feared killed in Zaire crash
>
>Plane fell into crowded market
>January 8, 1996
>Web posted at: 12:45 p.m EST (1745 GMT)
>
>KINSHASA, Zaire (CNN) -- At least 250 people may have died when an African
>Air cargo plane crashed into a crowded street market and, minutes later,
>burst into flames.
>
>
>An official from the International Red Cross said at least 217 bodies have
>been found so far. Most of the victims were women and children shopping at
>the market, made up of corrugated iron and wooden shacks.
>
>Vincent Nicod of the Red Cross said the Antonov 32 cargo plane manned by a
>Russian crew apparently "missed the takeoff" and crashed into the market,
>located in the center of Zaire's capital.
>
>"The plane did catch fire," Nicod said. "It's a nightmare there."
>
>The four Russian crew members survived and were in police custody, Reuters
>reported. The market is said to be located just across the street from the
>end of the runway of the small domestic Ndolo airport.
>
>Nicod said between 40 and 60 injured people were treated at the scene but
>rescue efforts had been hampered by people who descended on the downtown
>airport in search of their relatives.
>
>"Many of the bodies were mutilated," a Reuters news agency correspondent
>said. "The plane plowed through the market for about 330 feet before it came
>to a halt. It is still belching flames and clouds of black smoke."
>
>A fire crew from the airport rushed to the scene and tried to dampen the
>flames. Smoking wreckage from the aircraft was strewn across the site.
>
>A Zairian air force colonel at the airport told Reuters that the plane
>appeared to be overloaded. Witnesses said it got only a few yards off the
>ground before crashing.
>
>Last month a Lockheed Electra passenger plane owned by a private Zairian
>firm went down in Angola killing 141 people. Zaire's transport minister said
>he believed it was overloaded.
>
>The Zaire pilots association at the time complained of the poor civil
>aviation regulations in the country.
>
>With the road network in Zaire in shambles, private airline companies have
>sprouted up as the most viable means of transportation in the vast Central
>African country.
>
>http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9601/zaire_crash/index.html
>
>RA-26222 was leased to African Air in Congo. Photo taken about 18 months
>prior to the crash
>
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