A plane has crashed and burst into flames on the outskirts of South Sudan’s capital Juba, killing all 13 passengers and the pilot, the civil aviation authority said
At least 14 people have been killed after a plane crashed and burst into flames in poor weather.
The Cessna aircraft went down on the outskirts of South Sudan’s capital, killing all 13 passengers and the pilot, the civil aviation authority said.
Preliminary reports indicate that the plane arriving from Yei town may have crashed due to weather conditions that caused poor visibility. The civil aviation authority said the dead included two Kenyans, and the rest were South Sudanese.
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The authority said a team was dispatched to the site about 12 miles outside Juba. The Cessna 208 Caravan, which was operated by CityLink Aviation, lost communication while flying from Yei to Juba International Airport.
Air traffic control is understood to have lost contact with the plane after 30 minutes into the journey which would have been a distance of around 80 miles.
Videos of the crash site shared on social media showed remains of the aircraft in flames with the location shown appeared hilly and misty. “All the bodies were charred beyond recognition,” reportedly said a member of a UN rescue team that was sent to the scene.
Meanwhile, a US politician and a pilot were tragically killed in a fireball plane crash last weekend. Liz Conmy, a North Dakota state legislator, died after the plane went down in a suburban park shortly after take-off.
The plane was seen plummeting down before exploding into flames. Emergency services raced to the small park to find the wreckage engulfed in flames. It’s understood the plane had just left Crystal Airport on Saturday morning when it plunged down into a green space in Brooklyn Park, north of Minneapolis.
The North Dakota Democratic–Nonpartisan League Party, an affiliate of the national Democratic Party, confirmed Conmy’s death in a social media post, calling her a champion for public education, the environment, and transparency.
“We are completely heartbroken and gutted by the loss of Representative Liz Conmy. Her death is a profound loss for our state,” the party said in a post on X. Officers responded to a report of a small airplane crash at 11:51am and found an aircraft that had crashed and caught fire in a park in the city of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, shortly after taking off, Brooklyn Park Police Inspector Matt Rabe said.
