Plane carrying Michelle Obama aborts landing

The American authorities federal aviation said a plane carrying Michelle Obama abandoned landing Monday after his arrival too close to a military cargo jet.

The Federal Aviation Administration said that a Boeing 737, the fleet of presidential aircraft, came to within five kilometres of a C-17 massive as aircraft approached Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland to the Earth.

The FAA requires a minimum separation of eight kilometres between plans to avoid the dangerous wake turbulence.

Andrews Air ordered traffic controllers plane of Ms. Obama to abort its landing and the circle of the airport to give time to larger aircraft to clear the runway.

The FAA reviewed the incident as a possible error by the controllers in a regional radar facility in Warrenton, Virginia.

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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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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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