Friday's newspaper headlines in Kinshasa are dominated by Thurday's deadly plane crash in the Kingasani neighbourhood of the teeming Congolese capital.

The crash happened when "the [Russian-made] Antonov aircraft 'El Sam' heading to Tshikapa in the central Western Kasai province lost one of its wing engines about a minute after taking off" from Kinshasa's international N'djili airport, Le Potentiel reports.

The "Russian" pilot "with his co-pilot and his on-board mechanic tried to turn the plane around and get it back at the airport. But this proved difficult to achieve, as the aircraft had not yet reached a high enough altitude," Le Potentiel recounts. "So the aircraft, which by then was scraping treetops, managed to avoid crashing into a nearby market – this would have made the toll worse - and ended up smashing into a house..."

The toll is nevertheless a heavy one, with "35 dead and many others wounded", Le Potentiel notes.

To make things still worse, La Tempête des Tropiques reports that "this aircraft had no authorisation to fly".

"The Transport Ministry General Secretariat had categorically refused to grant this plane a flight licence after it failed to meet the technical criteria," La Tempête des Tropiques explains.

Despite that refusal, however, "the Secretariat later discovered with surprise that this same aircraft had been operating across the Congolese territory after having somehow obtained the necessary documents," La Tempête des Tropiques says.

So, it is yet another "flying coffin which again killed [people] at Kingasani yesterday [Thursday]," Le Potentiel concludes.

"Enough is enough," exasperatedly says L'Observateur, for which "it is high time [authorities] took some strong action if further air accidents are to be avoided".

It is time to understand that one has got to "break eggs to make an omelet," L'Observateur adds.

If not, "the DRC [will remain] the record holder for plane crashes," warns L'Observateur, which notes that "despite several air crashes involving numerous victims, the Congolese authorities concerned have yet to awake out of their lethargy".

However, L'Observateur hopes that at least this time around, "the culprits will be severely punished," because "the government had already banned all Antonov aircrafts from operating" in the DRC.

Which such ban in place, "how can one explain that planes of this type continue to fly?" asks Le Potentiel which notes that "the National Assembly has decided to summon the Minister of Transport to question him this Friday, 5 October".

MPs will be questioning the minister "amid calls for his resignation," according to La Tempête des Tropiques.