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Crocodile

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Old Crow:
In August 2010 a Let410 operated by a really dodgy outfit called Filair, dropped out of the sky in the Congo. The poor pilot was a British guy called Chris Wilson, building up his flying hours but far from comfortable with his job. The owner of the company, the Captain of the aircraft, couldn't even read instruments according to the doomed Chris Wilson, who had also told his father it was a dangerous place to fly for many reasons, one being people had a habit of getting up en masse during flight, walking around and making the aircraft unstable.

The events are not 100% confirmed but a strong likelihood as decided by an inquest in the UK into Mr Wilsons death using eye witness evidence.

The aircraft was on approach to Bandundu Airport in the Congo when a crocodile between two and three ft long emerged from a passengers bag. A flight attendant saw it first, ran to the front of the aircraft and the 19 passengers panicked and also rushed to the front. This seriously unbalanced the aircraft and it turned over and flew into the ground killing everyone except one passenger.

This story seems pretty credible as the survivor gave a description of what happened and also the crocodile was found alive in the crashed aircraft …….only to be beaten to death by the first people on the scene.

Rush:
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-smuggled-crocodile-1738122

So 12 years later the Democratic Republic of the Congo still hasn’t issued a final report?  Don’t they have something like an NTSB?

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