Landing in a swamp east of the unpaved strip, the aircraft came to rest inverted in the water.

[1] Free Airlines and Karibu Airways (also cited as the operator) were both on the List of air carriers banned in the EU.

That list now bans "All air carriers certified by the authorities with responsibility for regulatory oversight of Democratic Republic of Congo (RDC)".

[3][failed verification] There was one fatality, Mbuyu Mibanga, a deputy in the National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

At least 12 more were injured, including two Congolese doctors working for the World Health Organization and one Engineer working for Vodacom-Congo.,[4] After another crash occurred in August 2007, the licenses of Karibu Airways and pilot Isaac Besongo were subsequently suspended.