plane shot down before take-off

Top UN ambassadors were forced to hitch a bus ride from Democratic Republic of Congo to Rwanda after a security guard accidentally shot a hole in their plane, a UN spokesman said.
 
The Security Council ambassadors had been visiting violent eastern Congo during a trip to promote peacekeeping operations and other efforts to end some of the most intractable conflicts in Africa.
 
“They were boarding the aircraft to come back to Kinshasa. UN security have to surrender their weapons on the plane,” said Kemal Saiki, spokesman for the UN peacekeeping mission in Congo, the world body’s biggest.