In the Congo, your choices are limited. You can charter a plane from a reliable agency like Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF). It is much more costly. Or you try to drive which would be take weeks just to go 400 miles and it would be equally dangerous. So you basically have no choice but to pray, hope, and roll the dice.
Overall, travel is extremely difficult and unsafe in Congo and other African countries. Car accidents are a leading cause of deaths for expats.
Why It Matters : Danger in African Skies.
This sorry record has led to the European Union including 74 African airlines on its 91-strong global blacklist of planes barred from EU air space. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the country's vast size and severely-limited road network makes it heavily dependent on air cargo, all 54 of the country's airlines are banned. With 20 crashes since 1996, including a Hewa Bora Airways DC-9 that killed 40 people, including 37 on the ground when it overran the runway in the east Congolese city of Goma on April 15, the D.R.C. has the worst safety record in sub-Saharan Africa.
PRAYER:
Dear Heavenly Father, Give the air traveler courage, Help the African government to value human life, and Instill in African airlines the need for maintenance and replacement. AMEN.
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