{"id":26790,"date":"2021-12-23T17:21:11","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T17:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=26790"},"modified":"2021-12-23T17:21:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T17:21:39","slug":"five-people-died-in-a-plane-crash-in-eastern-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=26790","title":{"rendered":"Five people died in a plane crash in eastern Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> A small passenger plane with five people on board crashed in eastern Congo on Thursday. Authorities said none of the passengers survived. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ukraine , Ukraingate , 23 , December , 2021 | International News<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three passengers and two crew members were on board the Malu Aviation, which took off from the city of Goma and headed for Shabunda in the province of South Kivu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We have just launched an investigation to determine the cause of the accident,&#8221; said Shabunda administrator Diedonne Cashombanya. &#8220;We sympathize with all the families of the victims.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Malu Aviation website states that the company offers both cargo and charter flights to the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s add<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Air crashes are not uncommon in eastern Congo, although flights are still considered safer than ground travel because the region is home to many armed groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least 27 people died in 2019 when a small plane crashed in a densely populated part of Goma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: Ukrgate<br>SEE MORE :<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=25869\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"25869\">Two people died in a private plane crash in Canada<\/a>, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small passenger plane with five people on board crashed in eastern Congo on Thursday. Authorities said none of the passengers survived. Ukraine , Ukraingate , 23 , December , 2021 | International News Three passengers and two crew members were on board the Malu Aviation, which took off from the city of Goma and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":26791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[6568,10057,1748],"class_list":["post-26790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international-news","tag-congo","tag-eastern","tag-plane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26792,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26790\/revisions\/26792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}