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In photos: Precision Air crash

Rescuers search for survivors after a Precision Air flight that was carrying 43 people plunged into Lake Victoria as it attempted to land in the lakeside town of Bukoba, Tanzania on November 6, 2022. 

Nineteen people killed when the plane crashed while attempting to land in stormy weather at Bukoba Airport, which is close to Lake Victoria.


Here are some of the key events involved in the crash;

Rescuers search for survivors after a Precision Air flight that was carrying 43 people plunged into Lake Victoria as it attempted to land in the lakeside town of Bukoba, on November 6, 2022. 

Rescuers search for survivors after a Precision Air flight that was carrying 43 people plunged into Lake Victoria as it attempted to land in the lakeside town of Bukoba, Tanzania on November 6, 2022. 

Rescuers search for survivors after a Precision Air flight that was carrying 43 people plunged into Lake Victoria as it attempted to land in the lakeside town of Bukoba, Tanzania on November 6, 2022.


Local residents gather as rescuers search for survivors after a Precision Air flight that was carrying 43 people plunged into Lake Victoria as it attempted to land in the lakeside town of Bukoba, Tanzania on November 6, 2022.


Prime Minister, Kassim Majaliwa pays respect to the bodies of 19 people who lost their lives in the Precision Air plane crash on November 6, 2022


Caskets of victims of a passenger plane plunged that plunged into Lake Victoria are seen at the Kaitaba Stadium in Bukoba on November 7, 2022, during a ceremony to hand over the bodies of the victims to their families. PHOTO | AFP

Relatives of the 19 people who died in the Precision Air plane crash in Lake Victoria yesterday. They paid their final respects to their loved ones on Monday November 7, at the funeral service which was held at the Kaitaba Stadium, Bukoba.



 Some religious leaders at the Kaitaba Stadium, Bukoba where the funeral services of the 19 people who died in the Precision  Air plane crash in Bukoba, was held on Monday November 7, 2022.



Residents of Bukoba pay final respects to the bodies of 19 people that died in the Precision Air plane crash in Lake Victoria on November 6, 2022.


Mourners console each other at the Kaitaba Stadium in Bukoba on November 7, 2022, during a ceremony to hand over the bodies of the victims to their families. Grieving Tanzanians paid emotional tribute on November 7, 2022 to 19 people killed when a passenger plane plunged into Lake Victoria in the country's deadliest air crash in decades.



Soldiers carry the casket of a victim, after a passenger plane plunged into Lake Victoria, at the Kaitaba Stadium in Bukoba on November 7, 2022, during a ceremony to hand over the bodies of the victims to their families.

Soldiers carry the casket of a victim, after a passenger plane plunged into Lake Victoria, at the Kaitaba Stadium in Bukoba on November 7, 2022, during a ceremony to hand over the bodies of the victims to their families.