Youthful Jackson Majaliwa Declared a Hero, Gifted with $430 (£370) for Sacrificing Himself to be the First to Save Passengers Trapped in Precision Airplane that Crash-landed into Lake Victoria on 6-Nov-2022 Sunday Morning.

     👆 Jackson Majaliwa admitted in the hospital.

      Courtesy Photo of crashes Precision Aircraft 👆

7-November-2022.

“I panicked as I saw the passenger plane approach from the wrong direction, before plunging into the lake.

I rushed to the scene with three fellow fishermen and helped to open the rear door by smashing it with a rowing oar which helped passengers seated towards the rear of the plane to be rescued.

I then moved to the front and dived into the water then communicated to one of the Pilots using signs through the cockpit window

The Pilot directed me to break the window screen, I emerged from the water and asked airport security, who had arrived, if they have any tools that we can use to smash the screen.

They gave me an axe, but I was stopped by a man with a public announcement speaker from going down and smashing the screen. He said they were already in communication with the pilots and there was no water leakage in the cockpit.

After being stopped I dived back and waved goodbye to the pilot,

But the pilot then indicated that he still wanted to be rescued

He pointed out the cockpit emergency door to me. I swam back up and took a rope and tied it to the door and we tried to pull it with other boats, but the rope broke and hit me in the face and knocked me unconscious. The next thing I know I was here at the hospital," says, Jackson Majaliwa a young fisherman who was one of the first responders at the site of Sunday's plane crash which killed 19 people in Tanzania's Lake Victoria.

He was Speaking to the media from his hospital bed in the lakeside town of Bukoba.

Majaliwa Jackson has been officially declared a hero, awarded 1 million Tanzanian shillings ($430; £370), and offered a job in the fire and rescue brigade for his efforts.

Both pilots are among the 19 confirmed fatalities after the plane - operated by Precision Air, Tanzania's largest private airline - crashed near the shore of the lake.