A plane carrying Congo’s Minister of Mines, Louis Watum Kabamba, crashed upon landing in Kolwezi on Monday, November 17, but officials confirmed that no one on board was injured. Dramatic footage posted online captured the aircraft’s rough touchdown and skid off the runway, with Reuters verifying the location through satellite and file imagery. The minister was en route to visit the site of a deadly mine accident in Lualaba province, where a bridge collapse at a semi-industrial copper mine kille

Dramatic video filmed on a plane carrying DR Congo’s mining minister captured the moment it crashed on landing at an airport in Kolwezi in the southeast. No casualties have been reported. The minister was travelling to the site of a recent mining disaster. | Al Jazeera English

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