Bart Jansen

USA TODAY

A passenger plane crashed and burned in South Sudan on Monday, but all 49 passengers and crew members survived, according to news reports.

The South Supreme Airlines flight from the capital Juba was attempting to land at Wau airport when the crash occurred, Stephen Youngule, acting airport manager, told The Associated Press.

“The plane touched down and then jumped up again. The pilot couldn’t control it,” Youngule said. “I saw it until the very last moment before the fire engulfed the aircraft.”

When the plane crashed, its door flew open, which allowed the pilot and rescue crews to get everybody out, Youngule said.

"The weather is not good,” Paul Charles, an engineer at Wau airport, told Agence France Presse. “The pilot I think was not seeing the runway well.”

The injured were rushed to local hospitals. Dr. Edmond Sebit, director of Wau Teaching Hospital, told Eye Radio Juba that several people injured in the plane crash have been taken to the health facility for treatment.

"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," State Information Minister Bona Gaudensio told AFP.