Dozens of people have died in a plane crash in Democratic Republic of Congo.
Airline Hewa Bora put the death toll at 46, however the government said that 127 people had lost their lives.
A transport ministry spokesman said the airline had underestimated the number of people on the plane and put the number of survivors at 51.
The airline said that 118 passengers were on board and that 46 people had died.
'We have recovered 44 bodies and there were two injured who died in hospital, bringing the number of dead to 46,' said Hewa Bora president Stavros Papaioannou.
The Boeing 727 crashed when it tried to land in stormy weather at Kisangani airport in the northeast of the country.
The company's chief executive Stavros Papaioannou said that the pilot had tried to land but apparently did not touch the runway.
Heavy rains were said to be hampering the rescue efforts.
The plane was on its regular commercial route from Kinshasa to Kisangani and Goma when it was hit by the storm as it approached the airport, Lambert Mende, a spokesman for the local administration said.
A plume of black smoke could be seen at the end of the runway, an AFP journalist reported. But flights, which had been suspended after the crash, resumed a short time later.
Plane accidents frequently occur in DR Congo which are often blamed on ageing and poorly maintained aircraft, the flouting of safety rules and bad weather.
Each of its 50 or so airlines has been blacklisted by the European Union which has banned them from its airspace.
A UN aircraft crashed as it tried to land in a storm in Kinshasa in April, killing 32. One person survived in one of the worst disasters ever involving UN transport.
The Bombardier CRJ-100 plane, run by the UN mission in DR Congo, MONUSCO, was destroyed when it hit the ground as the pilot tried to land in torrential rain.
The plane was carrying 29 passengers - mainly UN officials and peacekeepers - and a four person crew on a regular UN flight from Kisangani to Kinshasa's N'Djili airport.
In August last year 20 people were killed after a plane flown by the head of a local airline crashed during landing in the west of the country.
