Antonov Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/antonov/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 24 Dec 2018 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Antonov Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/antonov/ 32 32 Two Antonov cargo planes crash in DRC https://jjcornish.com/2018/12/two-antonov-cargo-planes-crash-in-drc/ Mon, 24 Dec 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/12/two-antonov-cargo-planes-crash-in-drc/ An Antonov troops transporter’s crashed in the Eastern Congolese city of Beni, wounding 15 people on board. Last Thursday an Antonov cargo transporter crashed in the Capital Kinshasa killing all six people aboard. The cheaper but less safe Antonov aircraft are popular means of moving cargo and troops around he Democratic Republic of Congo that […]

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]]> An Antonov troops transporter’s crashed in the Eastern Congolese city of Beni, wounding 15 people on board.

Last Thursday an Antonov cargo transporter crashed in the Capital Kinshasa killing all six people aboard.

The cheaper but less safe Antonov aircraft are popular means of moving cargo and troops around he Democratic Republic of Congo that does not have a road system to boast of.

Last Thursday’s fatal crash involved a plane coming home from flying voting material to the central city of Tshikapa.

Beni, the scene of yesterday’s crash, is ground zero for the current outbreak of EBOLA which has become the worst in Congolese medical history.

Its also an important logistical centre for government troops fighting rebels that melt into neighboring Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda.

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