Congo Airways Flight 621

Congo Airways Flight 621 is a passenger-aircraft operated by Congo Airways, it was scheduled to take-off from Kinshasa to Lagos, it crashed on the Bight of Bonny, due to a pilot error of going up than the average altitude of the plane, causing it to stall, due to the pilot having poor pilot skills and being inexperienced, it would crash in the Bight of Bonny, 82 died and 21 survived the crash, and was one of the deadliest crashes in African history.

# Crew

The plane was led by captain Mbuti Hanson, which had 11,000 hours of flight time, and the first officer of Congo Airways Flight 621 was Ngui Larsiuts, which had 6,000 hours of flight time, he was originally supposed to be scheduled in Congo Airways Flight 223, taking-off from Kinshasa to Egypt, Cairo, but 3 days before Congo Airways Flight 223 had taken off, he was diagnosed with Pneumonia, and was re-assigned for Congo Airways Flight 621, and he recovered from Pneumonia soon after, and the one who drove the flight was Pilot Alte Reiroussa, which has 2,000 hours of flight time, and had poor pilot skills and inexperience in piloting, and co-pilot Larhouss Youba had 1,200 hours of flight time, with no pilot skills and little knowledge over flying.

# Accident

Flight 621 departs from N'jili Airport at 4:39 pm, and at 8:21 am, it was told to go up a little said by Captain Mbuti Hanson because of the plane being lower than the average altitude of Flight 621, with the pilot going up, he has gone up more than the normal altitude and is far from the maximum altitude, causing the plane to stall, due to the pilot being inexperienced and co-pilot having little knowledge over flying, the plane would crash after 7 seconds the plane stalled, due to it reaching intese speeds of stall, meaning the plane could not be now controlled, in the end 82 passengers died and 21 only survived, with the captain only surviving from the rest of the cabin crew, which died.

# Rescue

It wasn't found until 9 days until a ship from France boarded to Gabon, and approached the Bight of Bonny, and was near the spot where the plane had crashed, they found it in 12:38 am, the ship would rescue them using their ropes and lifebuoys to get them from the ropes, they were shortly put back to Democratic Republic of Congo, and after the Democratic Republic of Congo hearing the news of the plane that crashed, they immediately send rescue teams to the crash site to retrieve the dead bodies and find the missing people from board, all 2 missing people were found, the one piece, a tail, was found on Finima's shores, and the other one was found in near Akinlade's shore, these 2 people were identified as: Yuko Harrigwabi, a 19-year old man, and Lean Petrieour, a 23-year old man.

# Passengers

Lean Petrieour, the last missing person to be found, said that they went down so fast, no one could hug their family members, scream, and move, and it felt like a tsunami submerged and swallowed the plane in it''s way, the only one to talk about the incident except captain Mbuti Hanson, which said, it was the fault of our airlines to assign a inexperienced pilot, and a co-pilot that has little knowledge about flying, criticizing them, the first officer was in terror, that he couldn't speak.

# Aftermath

News all over Africa and the World would start to tell about this heartbreaking incident that took the lives of 82 people, this would make the media concerned and worry for the people in the crash, and it lasted 3 months, as the DR Congo media lasted about 9 months in worry and concern, the first movie about the crash, documenting it, was made in March 2023, 1 month after the incident, a DR Congo movie that was allowed to be in worldwide Netflix's servers by the Government of DR Congo, another movie came out in April 2023 about this, this time giving the experience of people in there, it was also allowed to be in worldwide Netflix's servers, allowed by DR Congo's government once again.

# Movies

Crash in the Blight - Released March, 2023, documentary film

Congo Flight 621 - Released April 2023, film about the experience in Congo Airways Flight 621.

# CVR (Extra and In French)

Captain: Remontez un peu l'avion, il est plus bas que l'altitude moyenne.

Pilot: Commandé Capitaine.

\*sound of plane going up\*

\*10 seconds later\*

STALL, STALL, STALL

Captain: Que se passe-t-il ?

Captain :Piquer du nez, réduire l'inclinaison, ajouter de la puissance si nécessaire, MAINTENANT !

Pilot: Nous ne pouvons plus la contrôler !

Captain: Préparez-vous ! Nous ne pouvons pas obtenir de gilet de sauvetage maintenant !

\*plane falls into the water making a sound\*