A United Nations plane is seen landing at Goma airport, as the wreckage of a Congolese jetliner is seen lying below, in Goma, Congo, Wednesday, April 16, 2008. A Congolese jetliner carrying 79 passengers and crew crashed on takeoff Tuesday, careening off a runway into a busy neighborhood and bursting into flames. An airline official says at least 21 people have been killed, but most of those aboard survived.
Rescue workers, onlookers, and UN personnel gather at the site of a plane crash in Goma, Congo Tuesday April 15 2008. A Congolese jetliner carrying around 85 people failed to take off Tuesday from an airport in this eastern town, crashing at high speed into a busy market neighborhood at the end of the runway, officials said. Smoke and flames engulfed the charred ruins of the aircraft, which appeared to have broken in two when it slammed into the rooftops of about 10 cement homes just outside the airport, destroying them instantly. Soldiers kept onlookers away after U.N. peacekeepers helped douse flames at the crash site.
Rescue workers walk amongst the wreckage of a Congolese jetliner that crashed on takeoff in Goma, Congo, Wednesday, April 16, 2008. United Nations peacekeepers and rescue workers searched Wednesday for bodies amid the smoldering rubble of a jetliner that careened off a runway Tuesday and killed at least 21 people in a bustling market area. Most of the 79 people on board survived, officials said.
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