Poetic justice or tragic irony for Angolan Airlines?

The very day the European Union released its blacklist of airlines that would be banned from entering its air space (one of them being TAAG Angolan Airlines), a TAAG Boeing 737 jet crashed in Angola.

The EU has come down hard on dozens of African airlines, forbidding them to fly to Europe. All Indonesian airlines have been banned from Europe as well.

With a timing more perverse than indicatory of points being made by the EU commission, the 737 crashed in M’banza Congo last week, a city bordering the Congo in Angola’s north.

There were 78 passengers onboard and at least six of them were killed in the mishap. There were other serious injuries, and they were taken to hospital as soon as rescue workers could access the plane.

According to ANGOP, Angola’s national news agency, the plane lost control during landing and destroying a building by plowing through it. One of the dead was a Catholic priest from Italy.