Congo plane crash kills 32 - the guardian

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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.

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Afghan woman killed in NATO convoy crash - the guardian

A British soldier patrolling the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. The crash triggered violent protests NATO convoy in the capital. Photo: Ahmad Masood/Reuters

Kabul police have said a British military convoy for crashing a group of women on a busy street in Kabul on Wednesday, one person killed and injured were two was responsible.

The incident, the spectators on the vehicles throwing stones you will be asked comes at a time of increased tension between Afghans and foreigners after days of unrest raised through U.S. Pastor burn a Quran in an incident, the last week to the death of seven led UN employees.

A traffic accident with us troops provoked in the year 2006 in Kabul the most serious acts of violence which has seen the capital, with the offices of aid agencies aLicht set.

Hashmatullah Stanekzai, a police spokesman Kabul, said the troops involved were British, though, that was not confirmed by the NATO.

Three business people working on the main road in the western Kabul said had black armored all-wheel drive vehicles was moving with speed, when ploughed the lead vehicle in the women, of which 4 m (13) on the road was raised. You have been shopping and try to cross the street when the first vehicle on his breaks struck, and crashed the car behind into.

"The soldiers came out of the car and began treating the women, but not someone they come and help, not made", said Saboor, a grocer, a shop in the vicinity of the collision has website. "But when the soldiers tried to leave, sorting out, the crowd was completely very angry without the problem and throw rocks at the cars began." You attacked also the guard of the nearby Ministry of water and electricity.

In contrast to the Afghan police, nor the soldiers fire on the demonstrators, but open Saboor said that an officer the extent threatened with a pistol.

A statement by the NATO international security assistance force said the vehicles on, after the wounded to a hospital had been taken.

Police had earlier wrongly reported that three people had died, including a person who was shot had.

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Bodies from 2009 Air France crash found

Sonar detectors on a small unmanned submarine late Saturday stumbled across a field of metal debris are a spot without located 600 miles off the coast of side-scan the sandy ocean floor connected the northern Brazil more than six miles north of the last known position of the Air France flight 447.

Within hours, an other Remus 6000 drone u-class submarine was a series of haunting black and white images of specialists on board the main search page, the Alucia transmission: two engines, RIP disabling of the wing of the aircraft; Bits of LG, a section of the fuselage dotted with a number of Windows.

And facilities.

"That for we were not prepared", said Robert Soulas, his daughter and son-in-law lost in the crash, the discovery of the body. "We are confronted with other trauma now."

At a press conference at the headquarters of France, Bureau of studies and analyses outside of Paris, officials said Monday the remains of several victims were clearly visible, although it would be probably several weeks or months before a more accurate count of corpses interred within the level of the high-resolution images,, an Airbus A330-200, would be known.

Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, a Minister, that monitors the environment and transport problems, said "Bodies have been found" reporters. "they are recovered and identified."

Investigators said that it would take three to four weeks before specially equipped recovery, start the ships on the spot the wreckage, and the dead, from which website could come away.

All 228 passengers and crew members were killed, as flight 447 1 June 2009 in a heavy, high-altitude lightning way to Paris from Rio de Janeiro went. Previous searches yielded more than 600 pieces of floating debris and the remains of no more than 50 facilities - 45 passengers and five crew members, including the aircraft captain.

With the ruins of 600 metres by 200 metres is located in a relatively limited field measurement said Jean-Paul Troadec, Director of the Bureau investigations were investigators now concentrate their efforts on the identification and retrieval of the aircraft black box, which they hope to the secret of the cause of twin-engine aircraft go to resolve would help down.

It remained unclear whether the recorders - which are usually on the back, on the bottom of the hull - remained connected or separated on impact with the water, said Mr Troadec. The images of the researchers examined so far showed not the rear section of the level.

Also, it was unclear whether for immersed in salt water for almost two years and under considerable pressure, the data contained therein - position, speed, altitude and position when it ran into trouble - would sufficiently legible voice recordings from the cockpit and information at the level, to advance the investigation.

Alain Bouillard, the Bureau principal investigator responsible for the recovery efforts, said he had "great confidence" in the robustness of the black box, but conceded that it was likely that they suffered some damage.

Officials said experts from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts would to collect still more detailed images of the wreck in the next few days.

The French Government expected to award a contract for salvage until next week, said Thierry Mariani, Secretary of State for transport.

Mr Troadec said that the wreckage resting on a flat part of the seabed, which seemed sand or mud was found. Photos showed pieces of the plane partly embedded in a soft sediment.

Investigators declined to exposing exact location of the wreck in order, they said, to maintain the integrity of the site. But a map, the reporter appeared to show that where air traffic controllers contact with the plane lost it less than six miles from the point was.

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32 killed, 1 UN survived plane crash

Only one person survived the crash, a UN spokesman SaysThe level tries, while strong thunderstorms in Kinshasa one land, high WindsAircraft is one of the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of CongoU.S. UN Ambassador: America "is available, to support"

(CNN) --eine person survived the crash of a UN level, which killed said 32 others in Congo Farhan Haq un spokesman on Monday.

Carried out the aircraft, the 33 people, belonged to the MONUSCO, the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to an official in Congo Ministry of transport.

Monday crashed attempting to land the aircraft in the early afternoon at the Kinshasa airport after a flight from Goma in the eastern part of that great nation in Central Africa, said the official.

Airport of Kinshasa reported strong thunderstorms and sustained winds of 37 km/h (23 mph) at the time.

UN peacekeeping Director Alain Le Roy said the plane missed the runway likely because of the wind, but he shows show, that the investigation in the early stages was.

Most of these on board were UN staff; five other agencies worked, Le Roy told reporters.

Susan Rice, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, said America ", the United Nations in the aftermath of this terrible accident support available."

"As we know, a stable and prosperous future for the Democratic Republic of the Congo must begin peace for his people, and UN staff have worked courageously, to strengthen the protection of the country women, men and children after years of struggle" said rice.

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Dozens killed in DR Congo plane crash - Aljazeera.net

Which were crashed on board the plane, locals and foreigners on Monday

Thirty-two people were killed and one person survived as a level of a UN spokesman said UN in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, crashed.

"We can just a survivor 33 people on board confirm that..." "Level," said Farhan Haq.

The plane crashed on Monday while trying to land on which the capital's airport.

It was one of the worst disasters ever with UN transport. Twenty UN listed workers on board the flight.

The aircraft was carrying UN officials and peacekeepers travel from the northeastern city of Kisangani for Kinshasa's N'Djili airport, according to the UN mission known as MONUSCO.

The world body said previously at both Congolese and foreigners were to board the aircraft.

The operator of the aircraft, Georgian Airlines of Georgian Airways, Airzena, said the crew was Georgian.

There were strong winds at the time of the crash.

UN source in Kinshasa, charged not be named, said the news agency of Reuters: "The aircraft landed heavily, broke in two and caught fire."

Reuters correspondent at the airport said the aircraft was completely destroyed and the debris was at the end of the start and runway.

The UN has transported a fleet of more than a dozen aircraft of the country with the Mission of the employees, journalists and employees of the international and local non-governmental organizations.

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Air France wreckage 2009 crash found

Some debris flight 447 shortly after the crash in 2009 found. France said that found in other parts of the nozzle.New: It is not immediately clear parts of the level which were, that DiscoveredAir France flight 447 disappeared after taking off from Brazil, on the way to the FrancePieces of the aircraft during an underwater search operationThe 2009 crash claimed 228 life found

Paris (CNN) -franz?sischen investigators, said Sunday that they pieces of the Air France Jet, have found that in the Atlantic Ocean in 2009, with all 228 people on board crashed.

Air France flight 447 disappeared following the launch of Rio de Janeiro on the way to Paris.

France's air accident investigation agency, the BEA said that a team-from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution--discovered parts of the aircraft during an underwater operation search within the last 24 hours.

The Agency said not immediately which parts of the Jet the team found.

Investigators have not yet proven what caused the crash, and large parts of the level-including the two Flugschreiber--have never, despite an extensive search operation, a French Navy included u-boot.

The Air France machine went into stormy weather, and most of the body were never found.

Studies of debris and bodies which were found led the BEA concluded that the aircraft water belly press first, essentially intact. Oxygen masks were not provided, said that the cabin not depressurize the BEA in a 2009 report.

Automated messages from the level in the minutes before the crash showed there were problems of air speed, investigators have said although she that alone not enough said the disaster lead was.

The area where the aircraft, is far out in the Atlantic - two to four days for ships of the nearest to reach ports in Brazil and Senegal in West Africa. The underwater terrain with underwater mountains and valleys of rough is, the BEA said.

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