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Congo’s Hewa Bora
Airways, Flight 952 Crashes Killing 82 Onboard By Mike Mitchell |
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June 11, 2011 - On Friday a Boeing 727 operated by Hewa
Bora Airways, Flight 952, crashed on landing in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo. Latest reports
indicate that of the 127 onboard 82 did not survive the
crash. Many of the surviving passengers received severe
burns.
The Boeing 727 was originally headed from the capital of
Kinshasa to the eastern city of Goma with a scheduled
stop in Kisangani. Flight 952 was on approach in heavy
rain to Kisangani airport when it attempted to land, the
aircraft crashed in a wooded area.
Kisangani is a city lying at the central heart of
Africa’s great rainforests. It is the 3rd largest
urbanized city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
and the largest of cities that lie in the tropical
woodlands of the Congo. It is the provincial capital of
Tshopo.
The languages most spoken at home by the population in
the city are Swahili and Lingala, followed by French.
The official language of Kisangani is French as defined
by the Constitution of the Democratic Republic of the
Congo.
Some 1,300 miles from the mouth of the Congo River, the
city of Kisangani is the farthest navigable point
upstream. Kisangani is the nation’s major inland port
after Kinshasa, an important commercial hub point for
river and land transportation and a major marketing and
distribution centre for the north-eastern part of the
country. It has been the commercial capital of the
northern Congo since the late 19th century.
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On April 15, 2008, Hewa Bora Airways Flight 122 crashed into a residential and market area of Goma of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 40 people were killed, among them 3 passengers; there were 111 injured, including 40 passengers. Hewa Bora Airways employs ove 1,000 employees. |
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