Casualties
Initial reports indicated that the Hewa Bora Airways flight had sixty to seventy passengers aboard and casualty reports varied. Authorities concluded that in the accident, those killed were mainly ground casualties and one registered passenger on the plane died.
The passenger manifest was first said to have "around 100 people", but in the DRC it is common practice to carry extra passengers and cargo beyond the manifest. Eventually a manifest was provided to the US embassy listing 79 passengers and five crew. The entire crew is reported to have escaped the aircraft.
Three days after the crash, 42 dead had been found and the search for the missing was still continuing.
Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop of Central Africa Ignatios was among the survivors of the crash. Another non-Congolese survivor was an Alcatel engineer named Selami Mordeniz. The fourth day more remains were recovered bringing the toll to 44, while 13 were still missing and 60 were rescued. An additional find, coupled with two deaths in hospital, brought the toll to 47 as of April 19. The Heal Africa clinic treated many of the injured. The aid group Médecins Sans Frontières announced that one of its workers was among those missing after 48 hours.
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