Precision Air Flight 494

When

6 Nov 2022

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

1.34° S, 31.83° E

Description

Wikinews article

Deaths

19

Injured

24

2022 aviation accident in Tanzania

Precision Air Flight 494 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight within Tanzania, from Julius Nyerere International Airport to Bukoba Airport via Mwanza Airport. On 6 November 2022, the ATR 42-500 plane crashed in Lake Victoria while attempting to land at Bukoba during bad weather and low visibility. Nineteen people were killed, including both pilots who drowned before rescue workers could reach them.

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• Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Precision Air Flight 494 crashes in Lake Victoria while attempting to land at Bukoba Airport, killing 19 people”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “в Танзании на озере Виктория разбился самолёт ATR-42”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Debido al mal tiempo, un avión se estrella en el Lago Victoria matando a 19 de sus 42 pasajeros a bordo”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “تحطم الرحلة 494 في بحيرة فيكتوريا في تنزانيا، مما أسفر عن مقتل 19 شخصًا من بين 43 كانوا على متنها”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page