Brussels Airlines began trying to set up a regional airline in DR Congo in 2007 . DR Congo used to be Belgian Congo and has strong business and political ties with Belgium . In that year , '' ' airDC ' '' was founded as a joint venture with Hewa Bora Airways , and the launch of commercial regional flights from Kinshasa-N ' djili Airport using a fleet of BAe 146-200s handed over by Brussels Airlines was planned for early 2008 . Concerns about the success of the project were voiced in 2008 , when the disaster of Hewa Bora Airways Flight 122 revealed serious aviation safety flaws in the DR Congo . As a consequence , Hewa Bora was banned from operating within the European Union ( any air carriers from the DR Congo had already been included in the EU blacklist since 2006 due to a lack or regulatory oversight in the country , but there had been an exception for Hewa Bora 's Brussels service ) . The airDC project was postponed indefinitely and eventually abandoned
Hewa Bora Airways Flight 122
Hewa Bora Airways Flight 122
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