This archive report was first published on 30 October 2019.
On Monday, a small passenger plane crash landed in Bor, Jonglei State in South Sudan, injuring those on board.
According to Bor Town Mayor Martin Majier, the plane was on its way back to the capital Juba when it made an emergency landing at Maatok, Kolnyang County of Jonglei, 12km south of Bor Airport at 1pm on Monday.
The plane, a Let-410 aircraft, was hired by two Sudanese traders based in Juba to ferry cargo to Walgak.
Of the four people on board, two were passengers and the others crew members, all of whom survived and are being treated at UNMISS - Bor SRIMED Level 2 Hospital for various non-life-threatening injuries, as stated by Dr Majier.
Dr Majier said the crew members were a Burundian pilot and his Congolese co-pilot.
Bad weather conditions were cited as the cause of the accident by Dr Majier.
As of 9pm, the patients were all in stable condition under the care of the UNMISS medical personnel, and their families and transport company notified.
A team of investigators and company personnel will arrive in Bor tomorrow (Tuesday) to investigate this accident, as said by the Bor Mayor.
South Sudan has experienced several plane crashes in the past, including an airplane operated by the South West Aviation that crashed in Eastern Lake State in April this year, killing 20 people, and a Russian-built cargo plane that crashed at the bank of river Nile shortly after take-off from Juba International Airport in 2015, killing dozens of people on board.
