A home airline airplane plunged into Lake Victoria in Tanzania early on Sunday, and the nation's prime minister says 19 folks on board had been killed.
Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa gave the brand new dying toll, up from three.
A complete of 43 passengers and crew are believed to have been on board the ATR 42-500 operated by Precision Air, Tanzania's largest personal airline.
The plane crashed because of dangerous climate shortly earlier than touchdown within the northwestern metropolis of Bukoba, police stated, including that rescue efforts had been ongoing.
“We have now managed to save lots of fairly quite a few folks,” Kagera province police commander William Mwampaghale advised journalists.
“When the plane was about 100 metres midair, it encountered issues and dangerous climate. It was raining and the airplane plunged into the water,” he stated.
Mwampaghale stated the rescue efforts had been persevering with.
Native authorities stated 26 of the 43 folks on board the Precision Air flight from the coastal metropolis of Dar es Salaam had been rescued.
It was not clear if any of those that had been rescued died on the hospital.
Precision Air launched a quick assertion confirming the accident.
"An investigation staff consisting of Precision Air technical employees and TAA (Tanzania Airports Authority) has additionally departed to affix the rescue staff on the bottom," the airline stated.
"Precision Air sincerely understands the nervousness for confirmed data and can due to this fact do its finest to difficulty extra particulars," the corporate stated.
"The subsequent replace shall be issued as quickly as we obtain extra data from the accident scene."
The accident comes 5 years after 11 folks died when a airplane belonging to a safari firm crashed in northern Tanzania.
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