Eight killed in DR Congo air crash

"There were no survivors. The plane slammed into the runway, the wings smashed and the entire aircraft caught fire," the governor of the Maniema region, Koloso Sumaili, told AFP after Thursday's accident.

The plane was carrying four passengers, all Congolese nationals, and four crew -- two of whom were Congolese and two South African -- according to an official from the Peace Airlines Company (PAC), which operated the flight.

The dual-engine aircraft had left the town of Goma in the eastern province of Nord-Kivu at around 0730 GMT on Thursday, crashing less than an hour later in Amisi, some 400km to the west.