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Plane Carrying 11 Passengers Crashes In Cameroon
According to state radio, an aircraft rented by a business that maintains a key trans-border oil pipeline crashed in a forest in central Cameroon, killing nine passengers and two crew members.
The plane carrying workers from the Cameroon Oil Transportation Company, which monitors the operation of a hydrocarbon pipeline that runs into Chad, crashed on Wednesday.
The radio host stated, “All perished in the disaster.”
“There were no survivors,” a transport ministry official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
The plane, whose type and make were not made public, was flying from Yaounde-Nsimalen airport to Belabo in the east of the country, the transport ministry has said.
It was found in a forest near Nanga Eboko, some 150 km (90 miles) northeast of Yaounde, it said.
“The chances of finding survivors are very slim,” a COTCO official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
