{"id":302671,"date":"2019-11-25T11:22:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T05:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=302671"},"modified":"2019-11-25T11:38:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T06:08:01","slug":"plane-crashes-into-homes-in-congo-at-least-25-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/plane-crashes-into-homes-in-congo-at-least-25-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Plane crashes into homes in Congo; at least 25 dead\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small passenger plane carrying at least 17 passengers crashed shortly after takeoff Sunday in Congo\u2019s eastern city of Goma, killing at least 25 people, including people on the ground. There are two survivors, including one member of the crew, according to the National Border Health Program, which confirmed 25 dead in a statement later Sunday. The survivors are being cared for at a local hospital, it said.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-seater aircraft crashed into residential homes in the Mapendo district near Goma\u2019s airport in the North Kivu province shortly after \u201cmissing\u201d its takeoff, according to provincial governor Nzanzu Kasivita Carly. Black smoke rose from the plane in the morning, whose wreckage could be seen amid destroyed homes as dozens of men tried to help with the rescue efforts. The smoke cleared as rescue workers carried bodies in stretchers and hundreds gathered at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small passenger plane carrying at least 17 passengers crashed shortly after takeoff Sunday in Congo\u2019s eastern city of Goma, killing at least 25 people, including people on the ground. There are two survivors, including one member of the crew, according to the National Border Health Program, which confirmed 25 dead in a statement later Sunday. The survivors are being cared for at a local hospital, it said. The 19-seater aircraft crashed into residential homes in the Mapendo district near Goma\u2019s airport in the North Kivu province shortly after \u201cmissing\u201d its takeoff, according to provincial governor Nzanzu Kasivita Carly. Black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}