Picture taken moments after the crash by Ajak Mayol and published via @ajakmayol on Twitter
November 14, 2014 (JUBA/BOR) – Two crew members died and another was injured when a cargo plane crashed in South Sudan’s Jonglei state on Friday.
The incident occurred in Jonglei’s Twic county.
“The plane came down at 9:00 am [local time] and set huts ablaze injuring several other people. Nobody died on the ground,” an eyewitness told Sudan Tribune by phone.
“The plane approached Panyagor air strip, but it did not land on the first round. It then went around and appeared like landing, but started staggering in the sky,” he added.
The plane, hired by the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), was ferrying relief items for the displaced people at the county headquarters.
Jonglei’s information minister, Judy Jonglei separately confirmed the cargo plane mishap.
“I heard that the plane was trying to land [but] before it came down, it was already in flames and immediately broke into two parts. The pilot and co-pilot died”, he told Sudan Tribune by phone.
LWF officials could not immediately be reached for a comment.
In August this year, a United Nations cargo helicopter crashed in Unity state, killing three people.
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Aircraft crash in South Sudan claims the lives of two pilots
The aircraft, manufactured in 1981 under C/N msn 1778 and registered as 5Y-BVQ, was on charter for the Lutheran World Foundation to deliver relief goods loaded in Juba, South Sudan’s capital city, to the area.
The aircraft went through the hands of several owners after first registration in Britain in 1981 and appeared on the Kenyan aircraft registry in January 2008, when 748 Aviation bought it. According to details obtained did the CoA, short for Certificate of Airworthiness, expire in late 2011 for lack of one engine before Global Airlift acquired it in 2014. This is the second fatal crash of a Global Airlift owned Hawker Siddley 748 (5Y-HAJ) in South Sudan this year, the first one having taken place on 17th February at the Rubkona airfield when one of the four occupants was killed in a landing accident while the plane was destroyed beyond repair. Three other crew on board suffered serious injuries at the time.
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