{"id":10029,"date":"2022-11-06T12:37:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T09:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/?p=10029"},"modified":"2023-11-21T13:28:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T10:28:10","slug":"a-place-crashes-into-lake-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/a-place-crashes-into-lake-victoria\/","title":{"rendered":"A Precision Air plane crashes into Lake Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Precision Air flight plunges into Lake Victoria when landing at Bukoba Airport in Tanzania, authorities say rescue operations underway  <\/p>\n<p>?: Courtesy <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WJLYfGeVjw\">pic.twitter.com\/WJLYfGeVjw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Citizen TV Kenya (@citizentvkenya) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/citizentvkenya\/status\/1589161957156093952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">An airplane belonging to Tanzania&#8217;s Precision Air has reportedly crash-landed into Lake Victoria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">As reported by Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation (TBC) on Sunday morning,\u00a0 the passenger plane had left Dar es Salaam heading to Bukoba through Mwanza .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">The cause of the crash as reported by TBC was caused heavy rainfall and strong wind as it attempted to land at Bukoba airport.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"in-article\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">&#8220;Ndege ya Precision Air iliyokuwa inatoka Dar es Salaam kwenda Bukoba kupitia Mwanza imedondoka katika Ziwa Victoria kutokana na kukumbwa na mvua kubwa na upepo mkali,&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">TBC highlighted that it had spoken to its writer Charles Mwebeya who is reporting live from the scene and explained that rescue exercises were ongoing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">&#8220;TBC imezungumza na Charles Mwebeya kutoka katika eneo hilo ambapo amesema zoezi la uokoaji wa abiria linaendelea katika eneo hilo ikiwemo kuitoa ndege hiyo ziwani,&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">&#8220;Endelea kufuatilia mitandao yetu ya kijamii kwa taarifa zaidi,&#8221; TBC reproted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">Precision Air went ahead and confirmed the plane crash.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">&#8220;Precision Air flight no. 494, flying from Dar es Salaam to Bukoba, was involved in an accident as it was approaching Bukoba Airport,&#8221; reads the statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"in-article\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">The rescue team has been dispatched to the scene and more information will be released by\u00a0 the airline in two hours&#8217; time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\">Precision Air flight plunges into Lake Victoria when landing at Bukoba Airport in Tanzania, authorities say rescue operations underway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NprLkBEuzsM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An airplane belonging to Tanzania&#8217;s Precision Air has reportedly crash-landed into Lake Victoria. As reported by Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation (TBC) on Sunday morning,\u00a0 the passenger plane had left Dar es Salaam heading to Bukoba through Mwanza . The cause of the crash as reported by TBC was caused heavy rainfall and strong wind as it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pej6K6-2BL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-content\/uploads\/lake-victoria-plane-crash-magaripoa.jpg?fit=1230%2C716&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magaripoa.com\/gari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}