Body parts of plane crash victims found
SOME body parts of the 11 people killed in the Monday cargo plane crash in Lake Victoria were retrieved yesterday.
By Herbert Sempoogo
and Henry Mukasa
SOME body parts of the 11 people killed in the Monday cargo plane crash in Lake Victoria were retrieved yesterday.
Residents at the lake shore tipped the Police that some limbs were floating at Gerenge near Garuga, Kasenyi landing site and near Kalangala Islands.
A search team comprising the army, the Police and the Civil Aviation Authority rushed to the three sites and picked the limbs.
Security sources confirmed the development, but were cagey on where the parts had been taken.
The search team did not return to Kigungu, where journalists covering the crash camped up to dusk.
Earlier, the search had been delayed for several hours by rains.
The team had turned focus to combing the Lake Victoria bed.
A Burundian army general and his two senior colleagues, four Russian/Ukranian crew-members, a South African, an Indian and two Ugandans were killed in the crash.
The plane, an Ilyushin S0-SAB, en-route to Somalia from Entebbe International Airport, burst into flames and plunged into the lake soon after take off.
It was operated by Aerolift and had been chartered by Dynacorp, an American company. After the morning down-pour, the search resumed at 1:00pm.
Burundi’s ambassador Gasper Musavyaravona and the liaison officer for the Somalia operation, based in Uganda, Lt. Col. John Claude Ndayihimbaze, visited the scene. They travelled to Magombe, the scene of the crash.
Members of the search team said they were boosting the diving strategy by combing the floor of the lake.
An official from Dynacorp visited the scene with a wreath and laid it down in tribute for the dead.
An unidentified woman believed to be the widow of, Alex Kirenga, the airport loadmaster for the ill-fated flight, camped at the scene and was inconsolable.
and Henry Mukasa
SOME body parts of the 11 people killed in the Monday cargo plane crash in Lake Victoria were retrieved yesterday.
Residents at the lake shore tipped the Police that some limbs were floating at Gerenge near Garuga, Kasenyi landing site and near Kalangala Islands.
A search team comprising the army, the Police and the Civil Aviation Authority rushed to the three sites and picked the limbs.
Security sources confirmed the development, but were cagey on where the parts had been taken.
The search team did not return to Kigungu, where journalists covering the crash camped up to dusk.
Earlier, the search had been delayed for several hours by rains.
The team had turned focus to combing the Lake Victoria bed.
A Burundian army general and his two senior colleagues, four Russian/Ukranian crew-members, a South African, an Indian and two Ugandans were killed in the crash.
The plane, an Ilyushin S0-SAB, en-route to Somalia from Entebbe International Airport, burst into flames and plunged into the lake soon after take off.
It was operated by Aerolift and had been chartered by Dynacorp, an American company. After the morning down-pour, the search resumed at 1:00pm.
Burundi’s ambassador Gasper Musavyaravona and the liaison officer for the Somalia operation, based in Uganda, Lt. Col. John Claude Ndayihimbaze, visited the scene. They travelled to Magombe, the scene of the crash.
Members of the search team said they were boosting the diving strategy by combing the floor of the lake.
An official from Dynacorp visited the scene with a wreath and laid it down in tribute for the dead.
An unidentified woman believed to be the widow of, Alex Kirenga, the airport loadmaster for the ill-fated flight, camped at the scene and was inconsolable.