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Cargo Plane With Eight People Crashes in Democratic Republic of Congo

© Sputnik / Alexey Kudenko / Go to the mediabankAn An-72 military cargo aircraft flies during an air parade at the Forsazh 2017 aviation festival marking the 105th anniversary of the Russian Air Force
An An-72 military cargo aircraft flies during an air parade at the Forsazh 2017 aviation festival marking the 105th anniversary of the Russian Air Force - Sputnik International
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An Antonov An-72 cargo plane with eight people on board disappeared Thursday afternoon in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), an hour after taking off from Goma, according to news portal Actualite.CD.

The aircraft, operated by the Air Force and involved in logistics operations for the Presidency of the Democratic Republic of Congo, crashed in a forest in the east of the country on Thursday.

According to government sources, cited by Reuters, members of presidential staff, inclduing President Felix Tshisekedi's driver and a logistics manager, were on board of the plane.

The Russian Embassy in DRC has been checking the information about Russians who were supposedly on board of the plane.

The An-72 cargo aircraft departed from Goma at 1:32 p.m. GMT bound for the capital, Kinshasa, where it should have landed at 4:43 p.m. Thursday, according to a statement from the Civil Aviation Authority.

Since the plane stopped communicating with the control center, 59 minutes after takeoff, "requests issued to all stations on its route have not provided information about its location".

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