32 Tewas setelah Pesawat Kargo Tabrak Perumahan
At Least 32 Killed as Cargo Plane Hits Houses in Congo
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
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Brazzaville (B2B) - Satu pesawat kargo jatuh ke perumahan dekat Bandar Udara Internasional Brazzaville, Kongo, saat mencoba mendarat selama badai pada Jumat malam. Menurut Palang Merah Kongo, paling tidak 32 warga setempat tewas seketika.
"Kami telah menarik 32 mayat dari lokasi kecelakaan, namun pencarian sedang berlangsung, mungkin ada lebih banyak korban," kata pejabat itu, meminta untuk tidak disebutkan namanya.
Pesawat kargo buatan Soviet, Ilyushin-76, berasal dari Pointe Noire, ibu kota komersial negara Afrika Tengah negara. Belum diperoleh sebab-musabab kecelakaan itu.
Republik Kongo, seperti halnya negara tetangganya, Republik Demokratik Kongo dan banyak negara di kawasan tersebut, perawatan dan tingkat keselamatan penerbangan tergolong rendah sehingga maskapainya dilarang melintasi kawasan udara di negara lain.
Pada Maret 2011, pesawat kargo Soviet yang dioperasikan perusahaan yang sama, jatuh menabrak rumah di Pointe-Noire yang menewaskan 23 orang.
Brazzaville - A cargo plane crashed into houses near Brazzaville Maya-Maya airport while attempting to land in a thunderstorm on Friday, killing at least 32 people, a Congolese Red Cross official said on Saturday.
"We have already pulled 32 bodies from the crash site, but there could be more victims," the official said, asking not to be named. The official said the dead included six crew members.
The Soviet-made Ilyushin-76 cargo plane, operated by local carrier Trans Air Congo was travelling from Pointe-Noire, the commercial capital of the Central African state. It crashed into more than a dozen houses near the airport.
Congo Republic, like its neighbour the Democratic Republic of Congo and many countries in the region, has one of the world's poorest aviation safety records due to poor maintenance and the use of old planes banned from other skies.
In March 2011, another Soviet-made Antonov cargo plane, operated by the same company, crashed into houses in Pointe-Noire while attempting to land, killing 23.
