The pilots of the November 6 crash into Lake Victoria failed to heed warnings from an automatic alarm system, a report of an investigation into the plane crash in Tanzania says.
The November 6 crash into Lake Victoria, resulted in the death of nineteen people as the plane attempted to land in the lakeside town of Bukoba.
An initial report from the transport ministry suggested a disapproving state of the emergency services’ readiness to deal with the disaster prompting anger over the response.
President Samia Suluhu promised a formal investigation into the matter as the government distanced itself from the preliminary report.
A second preliminary report on Thursday said a warning system that three alerts about “the excessively high descent rate” was “not followed by corrective action by the flight crew”.
The report also stated that the weather condition was bad amid poor visibility, which “may have contributed to the failure to react to terrain warnings during the final approach”.
The first respondents to lead the rescue effort were local fishermen. There had been 43 people on board and 24 survived. The two pilots were among the dead.