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Schoolchildren stop on April 17, 2008 near newly dug graves of the victims of the April 15, 2008 air crash in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo town of Goma.
Thursday, Apr. 17, 2008

Open quoteCongo is just a graveyard for airplanes.Close quote

  • JIM DURBIN
  • of the Washington-based Flight Safety Foundation, on the large number of aging aircraft in Africa. A 31-year-old DC-9 jetliner crashed in the Congo earlier this week
Photo: Lionel Healing / AFP / Getty | Source: AP