Only one person among the 33 passengers and crew crashed survived after a UN plane attempting, land in bad weather conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday.
The accident, in Kinshasa, is one of the worst include a UN aircraft. Most of the passengers were United Nations staff and peacekeepers, although five were NGO workers on board.
The sole survivor, which is in the hospital in the Congolese capital had no immediate details of Alain Le Roy, who said the head of UN peacekeeping operations of.
The plane which was en route from the eastern city of Goma, the start and runway in N'djili airport in Kinshasa, may had missed because of strong winds, Le Roy said. The Jet Bombardier CRJ-100 broke away on impact and caught fire. TV footage showed that the aircraft was almost destroyed. A formal investigation is under way of the crash.
While the nationalities of the victims were not confirmed, said the South African Government, three of its citizens died in the accident. The International Rescue Committee, an American aid agency, said its senior reproductive health consultants in Congo, Dr Boubacar Toure, a Guinean, was also among the dead.
The aircraft was operated and occupied with Airzena Georgian Airways. The company, which was flying for the UN in Congo for three years, said his four crew members, all Georgians, died and expressed shock over the accident had.
UN Security Council has sent his "deepest regret" to the families of the victims.
The UN peacekeeping force in Congo is the world's largest with 19,000 troops and is dependent on air transport, as the road network is insufficient.
Congo has one of the world's worst aviation safety records, in particular because of the fleet of old and often poorly maintained aircraft used the civilian population.
Which were crashed on board the plane, locals and foreigners on Monday