The plane burst into flames after crash landing at the airport (Picture: Rex Shutterstock)

A plane has crashed in South Sudan carrying 44 passengers.

Initial reports from local news sources suggested that everybody on board had been killed in the crash, but it has since been confirmed 14 are injured.

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The South Supreme Airliner came down at Wau Airport at around 3pm local time.

‘Right now we have the ambulance which has just come out from the airport and we have received 14 patients being rushed to hospital in stable condition,’ said State Information Minister Bona Gaudensio.


At least14 people were injured in the the crash (Picture: Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock)

There were 40 passengers and five crew members on board the South Supreme Airlines plane (Picture: AFP/Getty Images)_

A passenger aircraft crashed at South Sudan’s Wau Airport and burst into flames on Monday afternoon.(Picture: Xinhua/Liu Junhao)

There were 44 people on board (Picture: Bull Maliik / Facebook)

Firefighters rushed to the scene and pictures show the burned out wreckage of the plane with just the tail fin visible.



‘No one died but there are a number of injured people right now,’ one of the local aid workers near the scene of the crash told Reuters.

‘About 17 to 18 people injured in the incident were taken to hospital,’ said James Dimo Deng, a journalist in Wau, said.

The crash is believed to have happened when the plane came down to land after flying from Juba to Wau.

Authorities are yet to give details of the number of casualties, but South Sudan’s Eye radio is reporting that nine people were pulled alive from the wreckage to be taken to hospital.

Only the tailfin was recognisable following the collision (Picture: The National Courier‏)

Picture: Bull Maliik / Facebook