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22/06/2010
Irish Man Dies In African Plane Tragedy
The family of James Casserly, who died after a plane crash in Africa this week, are travelling out in an effort to bring his body home.
The plane went down in dense jungle between Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday.
Thirty-year-old James Casserly was born in Ballymena, Co Antrim but he grew up in Quin in Co Clare.
He had been working for an investment bank in London and was in Africa on business when the crash happened.
Australian mining firm Sundance Resources chartered the aircraft, carrying nine passengers. Contact was lost with it on Saturday before search teams inside the Democratic Republic of Congo found the wreckage yesterday.
(DW)
The plane went down in dense jungle between Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday.
Thirty-year-old James Casserly was born in Ballymena, Co Antrim but he grew up in Quin in Co Clare.
He had been working for an investment bank in London and was in Africa on business when the crash happened.
Australian mining firm Sundance Resources chartered the aircraft, carrying nine passengers. Contact was lost with it on Saturday before search teams inside the Democratic Republic of Congo found the wreckage yesterday.
(DW)
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