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GOMA Musician

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Gender Female
Age 51
Local timeWednesday 23:26
Population2 million (2019)
Weather21°C, Wind SE at 6 km/h, 51% Humidity
ClimateAw
Provinces North-Kivu
Date of birth January 21,1973
Zodiac sign Aquarius
Born Osaka
Japan
Songs 2004
List 2004
2006
Movies/Shows Planetist
Date of Reg.
Date of Upd.
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Goma is the capital of North Kivu province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is located on the northern shore of Lake Kivu, next to the Rwandan city of Gisenyi. The lake and the two cities are in the Albertine Rift, the western branch of the East African Rift system.

DR Congo plane carrying 18 people crashes in Goma

Feb 16,2020 8:31 am

The plane spun in the air Three Times before crashing, A Witness says

At least 27 people have died after a passenger plane crashed into houses in The City of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local officials say.

The Victims included nine people from the same family who were in one of the houses hit in the Mapendo area.

The small aircraft went down shortly after Taking Off from The City 's airport on Sunday morning. The Cause of The Crash is still unclear.

The plane was carrying 17 passengers and two crew members, officials say.

Air accidents are relatively frequent in DR Congo amid lax safety standards and poor maintenance, and all the country's commercial carriers are banned from operating in the European Union .

What is known about the air disaster?

The Dornier-228 twin-turboprop aircraft - owned by private carrier Busy Bee - crashed about a minute after take-off, a source at Goma airport told the BBC.

The plane had been scheduled to fly to Beni, 350km (220 miles) north of Goma .

A Dornier 228-200 plane operated by Busy Bee seen in a picture taken in March

A Witness , Djemo Medar, said he saw the plane "spinning Three Times in the air and emitting a lot of smoke".

"When the plane crashed many of us rushed there, we know The Pilot , his name is Didier; he was shouting 'Help me, help me', but we had no way to get to him because The Fire was so powerful," he told Reuters news agency.

Sources said the plane experienced engine failure right after take-off, the BBC's Emery Makumeno reports from the capital, Kinshasa.

It was not immediately known how many residents were in their homes when the plane crashed.

The plane came down in a densely populated area

North Kivu regional governor Nzanzu Kasivita offered his condolences to the families of survivors.

The BBC has contacted Busy Bee for comment.



democratic republic of congo, aviation accidents and incidents, goma

Source of news: bbc.com

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