Ateny said that the plane may have had more than 50 people on board, including the crew. Packages of cheap sandals, cigarettes, beer and crackers were strewn amid the wreckage.
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Armenia said in the hours after the crash that five of its citizens, who had been part of the plane’s crew, were killed in the disaster.
The radio station said as many as 40 people were feared dead, adding that airport officials said only three passengers had survived.
A reporter at the scene of the crash saw bodies including those of women and children.
Ateny said an unknown number of people were also killed on the ground.
Transport Minister Kuong Danhier Gatluak said only two people – a baby and adult – had been found alive, but the adult later died.
It was reported that a woman on board the plane tossed her child out of the window of the falling plane, having thus saved the child’s life.
November four, 2015: Responders decide via the wreckage of a cargo aircraft which crashed within the capital Juba, South Sudan.
There are conflicting reports on the number of casualties, with Reuters quoting a police officer and a witness saying they had seen 41 bodies.
It is not yet known how many were killed on the plane, or on the ground.
A spokesman for the Armenian Foreign Ministry, Tigran Mkrtchian, confirmed five Armenian crew members died.
The plane’s first flight was in 1971, the Aviation Safety Network reported. “It was just chartered for goods”.
Warikozi responded, “This accident is happening anywhere, not only the South Sudan Civil Aviation but you can recently hear that in Egypt what everywhere there is an accident”.
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South Sudan has been engulfed by conflict since December 2013, when a power struggle in the ruling party led to fighting within the presidential guard and the fracturing of the army. Juba, the capital, has been peaceful recently.
