All 21 people on board, including a single survivor, were employees of an oil consortium that includes China National Petroleum Corporation.

A small aircraft carrying oil workers in South Sudan's Unity State crashed on takeoff from its oilfield airport on Wednesday, killing 20 people, the region's information minister said. The plane had departed for the capital Juba when it went down,

KABUL (Pajhwok): An aircraft carrying oil workers in south Sudan’s Unity State has crashed, killing 20 people, a media report said on Thursday. En route to the capital Juba, the ill-fated plane crashed at the Unity oilfield airport on Wednesday, CNN quoted the state information minister as saying.