London, Oct. 22: A plane crash in Democratic Republic of Congo that killed 20 people on board was caused by a crocodile hidden in a bag on the flight, a media report said here on Friday.
A British co-pilot, Chris Wilson, was among 20 people who died in the crash when passengers ran into the cockpit to escape a crocodile, the Daily Mail reported.
Wilson died alongside Belgian pilot Danny Philemotte when the twin-engined plane crashed on August 25 into a house a few hundred metres from its destination in Congo.
A lone survivor told investigators that the small plane was thrown off balance by a stampede of passengers trying to avoid the reptile, the report said.