A team sent to investigate the Tuesday evening plane crash in Uror County, Jonglei State, found SSP800,000 and US$50,000 at the crash scene, former area governor Majok Gatluk has revealed.

Mr Gatluk addressed the press on Thursday evening and revealed that the plane may have been downed by a technical hitch.

“I also found out that there was no problem on the ground. It was a technical problem with the aircraft,” he said.

He was part of the team that was sent by the leadership of Juba International Airport to secure the scene, transport the bodies of the two pilots and meet the bereaved families.

Gatluk further said that two expectant mothers were among those who perished in the crash.

He said the victims included a nine-year-old girl, another one 11-years old, a man and his wife, a woman with her daughter and another woman with her sister.

President Salva Kiir on Wednesday ordered the ministry of transport and the Civil Aviation Authority to suspend South Sudan Airline Operations from service and begin immediate probe into the cause of the crash.

But The City Review ascertained that upto Friday evening by the time of publishing this story, the investigation team is yet to be assembled.

Though Mr Gatluk said they had made a breakthrough in finding the black box which will aid in the investigation and that they were waiting for the airport to communicate.

“ [We are] just waiting for the airport authority to tell us what is next because we have brought the black box from the ground and then I think it now needs experts to tell us what happened .’’ Atleast 10 victims perished in the Tuesday evening plane that crashed at Pieri-Uror while enroute to Juba from Pieri Airstrip