Biography And Wikipedia: Tanzanian fisherman, Jackson Majaliwa, who saved passengers on Precision Air in Bukoba, Tanzania, gets 1M Tz Shillings and a job at Fire and Rescue Force.
A Tanzanian Fisherman (really boy) who broke open the crashed Precision Air plane to save 20 lives has been appointed by President Suluhu Samia in the Marines with immediate effect. You just have to love Tanzania.
Tanzanian fisherman, Jackson Majaliwa, who saved passengers on Precision Air in Bukoba, gets 1M
He woke up as a fisherman and slept as a government official.
Nineteen of the 43 people on board died when the plane crashed into Lake Victoria in Tanzania on Sunday (local time), while trying to land at an airport nearby.
In the moments after the crash, rescuers rushed out to the sinking plane, which was owned by Precision Air, Tanzania’s largest private airline.
Among them was fisherman Majaliwa Jackson. Mr. Jackson had seen the plane crash into the lake and rushed out with three other fisherman to try to help.
From his hospital bed on Monday, he told the BBC he used a rowing oar to smash the rear door and free those who were stuck at the back of the plane. He then swam underwater to the front of the plane, where he communicated with the pilots, who gestured at the cockpit window.
On rising to the surface for air, Mr Jackson found airport security had arrived. He asked if they had anything he could use to smash the windscreen.
