Ten passengers aboard a Congolese airliner, operated by Compagnie Africaine d'Aviation, were slightly injured Thursday when the plane overshot the runway as it landed at Goma airport after a flight from the capital Kinshasa.

The pilot failed to break in time to make a turn at the end of the runway, said David Blattner, head of the Compagnie Africaine d'Aviation, adding that he did not know the accident's precise cause. Both thrust-reversers on its P&W JT8D engines appear fully deployed.

The aircraft - a 21-year old airframe registered 9Q-CAB - came to rest, pitched up, on a bank of boulders off the runway end. It suffered extensive damage to its underside forward fuselage and nose-gear, and the accident left the jet's aft in contact with the ground.

Air crashes are frequent in DR Congo and all the country's carriers have been banned from operating in European Union airspace. A crash involving a DC-9 aircraft killed 50 people and injured around 100 at Goma airport in April last year.

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