Salvage workers gather at the scene of a United Nations plane crash in the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Kinshasa on 5 April, 2011.STR/REUTERS Anita Snow and Saleh Mwanamilongo Associated PressOne person survived among the 33 members of staff and crew of the United Nations on board an aircraft which crashed in Congo on Monday, said officials of the United Nations.
U.N. peacekeeping Chief Alain Le Roy said to journalists that he had no detailed information about the sole survivor, which said, was hospitalized after the crash of the city of Kinshasa Congolese.
Le Roy said the cause of the accident had not been determined, but investigators were looking at the possibility that the windy had caused the aircraft to miss the airstrip. Craft came down beside the runway and burst on landing, he said.
The mission of the peace of the United Nations in New York described the craft as a small passenger aircraft and said that he was conveying a mixture of mainly United Nations staff, including the guardians of the peace. Le Roy said that the Group was composed of four members of the crew and 29 passengers that included a few workers for non-governmental organizations.
A senior Congolese aviation official, who spoke the condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to speak to the media, said that the aircraft was travelling to Kisangani to Kinshasa.
The Council of safety on Monday expressed his "deepest condolences" to the families of those who died. Ambassador of the United States Susan Rice issued a separate statement, saying: "the loss of philanthropists and guardians of peace is today a tragedy for the United Nations."
The mission of the United Nations in the Congo, called MONUSCO, includes more than 19,000 soldiers in peacekeeping in uniform. The mission is responsible for the protection of civilians in the huge Central African nation wracked by violence of a myriad of rebel groups and militias.
Little de roads walkable crosses the Congo after for decades de war and rule corrupt, forcing the country deeply poor people de if support on the had poorly maintained and the boats de to move. Congo has one of worst years of safety air in the world. Regulations on the security of countries Africa Central is notoriously lax.
Rescue workers congregated at the scene of a United Nations plane crash in the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Kinshasa on 5 April, 2011.STR/REUTERS
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