The European Union placed all DRC airlines on its List of airlines banned in the EU . HBA has held a single exemption for a single Boeing 767-266ER tail number 9Q-CJD , construction number 193H-1209 , but that too had been removed on 11 April 2008 . Very similar crashes in the DRC the previous October in the capital , Kinshasa and in 1996 also came down in residential or market areas . Because the DRC has so little passable roadway , most freight is moved by air and markets are common near airstrips
in 1996
1996 Air Africa crash
Hewa Bora Airways Flight 122