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Tanzania plane crash rescue slow, ill equipped: govt

Police blamed bad weather for the disaster but President Samia Suluhu Hassan promised a formal investigation into Tanzania's worst aviation accident in decades as anger grew over the government's handling of the rescue effort.

Nineteen people died when the Precision Air plane plunged into Africa's largest lake on November 6 /AFP
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision

Tanzanian authorities said Tuesday more passengers would likely have survived a deadly plane crash into Lake Victoria earlier this month had emergency workers been prepared and rescue operations launched swiftly.

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