S. Sudan aviation chief : Plane not OKed to carry passengers
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — A cargo plane that crashed soon after takeoff, killing at least 37 people, was not authorized to carry passengers, the chief of South Sudan's Civil Aviation Authority said Thursday.
The U.N. mission in South Sudan said it has provided a diving team to search the River Nile adjacent to the crash site and an engineering team to support efforts to cut open or remove debris.