The plane left the commercial capital Dar es Salaam on Sunday and made a scheduled stop at Mwanza before it crashed at around 08.50 local time (05:50 GMT) as it was approaching Bukoba airport. Afisherman who was one of the first responders at the site of Sunday’s plane crash, which killed 19 people in Tanzania’s Lake Victoria tried to save the pilots unfortunately both pilots are among the 19 confirmed fatalities after the plane – operated by Precision Air, Tanzania’s largest private airline – crashed near the shore of the lake. Why have plane crahses become so normal?

