{"id":183257,"date":"2022-11-06T12:22:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T09:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/?p=183257"},"modified":"2022-11-06T12:22:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T09:22:03","slug":"tanzanias-air-plane-crashes-into-lake-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/tanzanias-air-plane-crashes-into-lake-victoria\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania\u2019s Air plane crashes into Lake Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-183258\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/bWx0qIZFPEhAVoD4vz4Xf2iSpylmnoZglqcwLg9M.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/bWx0qIZFPEhAVoD4vz4Xf2iSpylmnoZglqcwLg9M.jpeg 800w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/bWx0qIZFPEhAVoD4vz4Xf2iSpylmnoZglqcwLg9M-300x188.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/bWx0qIZFPEhAVoD4vz4Xf2iSpylmnoZglqcwLg9M-768x480.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/bWx0qIZFPEhAVoD4vz4Xf2iSpylmnoZglqcwLg9M-696x435.jpeg 696w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/bWx0qIZFPEhAVoD4vz4Xf2iSpylmnoZglqcwLg9M-672x420.jpeg 672w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Precision Air plane crashed into Lake Victoria in Tanzania while attempting to land at an airport during bad weather.<\/p>\n<p>State-owned Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation (TBC) reported on Sunday that 15 people had been rescued so far but it was unknown whether there were any fatalities. There were 43 people on the aircraft.<br \/>\n\u201cWe have managed to save quite a number of people,\u201d Kagera province police commander William Mwampaghale told journalists.<\/p>\n<p>The plane departed from the commercial capital Dar es Salaam and \u201cfell in the Lake Victoria this morning due to storm and heavy rains\u201d in Bukoba.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the aircraft was about 100 metres (328 feet) midair, it encountered problems and bad weather. It was raining and the plane plunged into the water. Everything is under control,\u201d said Mwampaghale.<\/p>\n<p>News reports showed photos of the plane mostly submerged in the lake.<br \/>\nSpeaking to Al Jazeera from Dar Es Salaam, Faraji Saidi, a journalist, emergency services were continuing with rescue efforts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to the police commander in Bukoba, the plane crashed due to bad weather, fog. It is raining around that area. Rescue efforts are still ongoing. According to preliminary report, the plane crashed about 100m from the airport. The airline has worked in Tanzania for so long and has had no crashes,\u201d Saidi said.<\/p>\n<p>Bukoba Airport is on the shores of Lake Victoria, Africa\u2019s largest lake. Rescue boats were deployed and emergency workers continued to rescue other passengers trapped in the plane.<\/p>\n<p>Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan called for calm during the rescue operation.<br \/>\n\u201cI have received with sadness the news of the accident involving Precision Air\u2019s plane,\u201d she tweeted. \u201cLet\u2019s be calm at this moment when rescuers are continuing with the rescue mission while praying to God to help us.\u201d<br \/>\nPrecision Air is Tanzania\u2019s largest privately-owned airline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Precision Air plane crashed into Lake Victoria in Tanzania while attempting to land at an airport during bad weather. State-owned Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation (TBC) reported on Sunday that 15 people had been rescued so far but it was unknown whether there were any fatalities. There were 43 people on the aircraft. \u201cWe have managed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10221280388112155_325455220908133":"","twitter_917774835383787521_917774835383787521":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183257"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183259,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183257\/revisions\/183259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}