Comments on: DRC: Kinshasa Plane Crash “Will Not Be the Last”

By: MAHAMAT ABDOULAYE

MAHAMAT ABDOULAYE — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:00:37 +0000

I WANT SEE THE VIDEO OF THE LAST CRASH OF LPLANE IN RDC

By: Global Voices Online » D.R. of Congo: Fifth fatal crash in under a year, food prices the real disaster

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:31:34 +0000

[...] October, Du Cabiau à Kinshasa, responding to a plane crash in a poor district of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, wrote, ominously: “This crash was not the [...]

By: Random African

Random African — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:47:55 +0000

I thought that crash just like almost every other crash in Africa was caused by overload ?

By: Jackycongo

Jackycongo — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:27:10 +0000

Contrary to media and popular belief, the plane was not “old” and was properly maintained.
AN-26GR registered 9Q-COS, serial 88-07, was actually completely overhauled by the manufacturer one year ago.
Proper maintenance was performed during the lapse of one year (almost to the day) spent in the DRC.

By: Bankele

Bankele — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:02:43 +0000

The daring pilots of the Congo were profiled in Bono’s Vanity Fair Africa issue (probably the longest story there).

The aircraft are old (and repaired ad hoc) and with the poor state of runways in the huge country, I have to agree with Du Cabiau

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Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:22:03 +0000

[...] DRC: Kinshasa Plane Crash “Will Not Be the Last” The world is talking. Are you listening? Du Cabiau A Kinshasa , a Belgian living in Congo, writes about last week’s plane crash in Kimbanseke, a poor and densely-populated neighborhood in Kinshasa. [...]