France, Jan. 8 -- The Antonov An-32B cargo plane was flying under the name of Air Africa, operated by Moscow Airways and leased to the private airline Scibe Airlift.

Dangerously overweight, according to investigators, it failed to take off from Ndolo airfield and careered into the nearby Type K street market.

While four of its six Russian crew survived the accident, at least 250 people on the ground were killed and several hundred injured.

The authorities put the official death toll at 237 people.Only 66 of the bodies could be identified - the others were burnt beyond recognition.

"I was 15 at the time and still at school, but my whole family was at the market that day," remembers Didier Lumbu Sangwa, today president of the Type K mar...