The death toll from yesterday’s Precision Air Plane plunge in Lake Victoria near Bukoba Airport, Tanzania has risen to 19.
The report was confirmed by the country’s Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa after arriving at the scene of the accident yesterday afternoon.
“All Tanzanians are with you in mourning the 19 people who lost their lives during this accident,” Majaliwa addressed a crowd at the scene of the accident.
The Prime Minister said that investigations have been launched to find out the cause of the accident.
Unconfirmed reports have however attributed the crash to bad weather.
The plane of registration number PW 494 -5H-PWF, flying from Dar-Bukoba-Mwanza had 43 passengers and crew on board.
According to Kagera Regional Commissioner Albert Chalamila, of those on board 39 were passengers, two cabin crews and two pilots.
Regional authorities earlier said that 26 survivors out of the 43 people on board had been pulled to safety and taken to hospital in the lakeside city.
Precision Air is Tanzania’s largest privately owned airline and is partly owned by the Kenya Airways which is experiencing operational paralysis occasioned by pilots’ strike.
