GEOFFREY MBUTHIA ENTERTAINMENT SUB-EDITOR

06 November 2022

• The plane can be seen submerged in the lake.

• In another video, one can see a line of people pulling out the plane with a rope.

A viral video doing the rounds online shows a Precision Air airplane that has crash-landed in Lake Victoria.

MillardAyo, one of Tanzania's biggest and most respected entertainment sites got footage of the submerged plane in East Africa's largest water body.

The Tanzanian blog added that the plane had crash-landed in Bukoba, Kagera while preparing to land.

“Hii ni moja ya video zilizorekodiwa na Mashuhuda wa ajali ya Ndege ya Precision Air inayodiwa kuanguka leo asubuhi Bukoba, Kagera wakati ikijiandaa kutua.”

(This is one of the videos recorded by the Witnesses of the Precision Air plane crash that was supposed to crash this morning in Bukoba, Kagera while preparing to land)

As reported by Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation (TBC) on Sunday morning, the passenger plane had left Dar es Salaam heading to Bukoba through Mwanza .

The cause of the crash as reported by TBC was caused heavy rainfall and strong wind.

MillardAyo then then went on to post a video of the plane being pulled from the lake by a line of people with a rope. The caption in the video read,

“Kinachoendelea kwa sasa hapa Nyamkazi, Bukoba ni kuivuta kwa kamba Ndege ya PRECISION AIR na kuipeleka pembeni mwa ziwa kusiko na kina kirefu ili kurahisisha zoezi la uokoaji kwa Watu ambao inaelezwa bado wako ndani ya Ndege hiyo.”

(What is currently going on here in Nyamkazi, Bukoba is that they are pulling the PRECISION AIR plane with a rope. They are taking it to the shallow side of the lake in order to facilitate the rescue exercise for the people who are said to be still in the plane)