Precision Air was founded in 1993 and serves destinations across Tanzania, Kenya and Comoros ANALYSIS | FELIX THOMPSON | Export Development Canada (EDC) has brought a claim in the UK High Court against an embattled Tanzanian airline company, alleging it is owed nearly US$26mn under an aircraft financing agreement. In late …
Read More »Tanzania launches full investigation into Lake Victoria’s plane crash
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua | Tanzanian authorities said Monday they have launched a full investigation into the cause of a plane crash into Lake Victoria on Nov. 6 that killed 19 people. Gerson Msigwa, the chief government spokesperson, said the cabinet that met in the capital Dodoma directed local …
Read More »Tanzanian president offers job to fisherman for rescuing passengers in Lake Victoria plane crash
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua | Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has ordered authorities to employ a fisherman who led a rescue mission for passengers after their plane crashed into Lake Victoria on Sunday morning, Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa said on Monday. A statement by the Prime Minister’s Office said …
Read More »Lake Victoria plane crash death toll rises to 19
Mwanza, Tanzania | XINHUA | The death toll from a Tanzanian plane crash into Lake Victoria on Sunday morning has risen from three to 19 by late afternoon, said the country’s Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa. Majaliwa, who visited the crash site on the shores of Lake Victoria in Bukoba district …
Read More »PRECISION AIR: 26 passengers rescued after plane crashes into Tanzania’s Lake Victoria
Mwanza, Tanzania | XINHUA | Twenty-six passengers have been rescued from a plane that crashed into Lake Victoria in Tanzania’s northwestern Kagera region on Sunday morning, said a local official. The Kagera regional commissioner, Albert Chalamila, said the plane flying from the Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam …
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