Nine passengers and two crew members died after a plane chartered by a company maintaining a major trans-border oil pipeline crashed in a forest in central Cameroon, state radio said Thursday. The plane, which crashed on Wednesday, had been carrying workers of the Cameroon Oil Transportation Company, which oversees the upkeep of a hydrocarbon pipeline running to neighbouring Chad. A transport ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP, “There were no survivors.”The plane, whose type and make were not made public, was flying from Yaounde-Nsimalen airport to Belabo in the east of the country, the transport ministry has said. It was found in a forest near Nanga Eboko, some 150 km (90 miles) northeast of Yaounde, it said. “The chances of finding survivors are very slim,” a COTCO official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Source: Stuff May 12, 2022 20:45 UTC