DRC remembers fatal plane crash in Kinshasa city centre, 30 years on

DRC remembers fatal plane crash in Kinshasa city centre, 30 years on

[RFI - Africa] - 8/01/2026
On 8 January 1996, a Russian-built Antonov aircraft crashed into a market in Kinshasha city centre, killing at least 237 people in one of the worst tragedies in African aviation history. Thirty years on, the market is bustling once more, but the city has not forgotten the victims.
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