20 HOURS BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH

By Kizito Makoye, in Zanzibar
Shock, hope, despair…the pilot and two passengers aboard the Cessna-172 Charter Aircraft experienced a myriad emotions soon after take-off at 3.35 pm on a Tuesday, two weeks ago, their plane suffered an engine failure mid air and sank in the Indian Ocean off the Bagamoyo Coast. But in the end, it was the survival instinct that kept them going during the 20 hours of holding-on-to-life-by-a-threadbare, including a traumatic night, in the freezing waters.
The Express managed exclusive interviews with the pilot and two passengers of Tropical Air flight 5H/PDK, whose engine failed 10 minutes after it took off from the Dar es Salaam International Airport (DIA) on November 30.

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