A plane crashed Tuesday shortly after taking off from the Goma airport in the Democratic Republic of Congo, tearing the roofs off houses as it plowed through a densely populated marketplace near the runway, CNN reported. Antoine Ghonda, a Congolese lawmaker and former foreign minister, said the crash killed at least 18 people while roughly 66 others -- including five crew members -- survived. Those numbers from Ghonda, who is in touch with Congolese Interior Ministry officials, are down sharply from earlier estimates that as many as 75 were dead. It was unclear whether those estimates included people on the ground.
