Naim 6 Report post Posted June 10, 2008 Page last updated at 20:47 GMT, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 21:47 UK BBC 'Many dead' in Sudan jet inferno Plane on fire at Khartoum airport A passenger plane has burst into flames after crashing at the main airport in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. State television says more than 100 people on board have been killed. Witnesses said the plane, thought to be carrying about 200 passengers, crashed after veering off the runway while attempting to land during a storm. The plane was engulfed in flames but witnesses said they had seen some passengers escaping via emergency chutes after they deployed. Sudanese television said Khartoum hospitals were treating a large number of injured people. Sudanese officials said it was a Sudan Airways flight from the Jordanian capital Amman via Damascus, Syria. Wreckage ablaze The witnesses said the fire appeared to start in the plane's right engine before spreading throughout the plane. Television footage showed the wreckage ablaze as emergency workers tried to fight the fire in the darkness. The BBC's Amber Henshaw, in Khartoum, says there was a sandstorm and heavy rain at the time of the crash, at approximately 2000 (1700 GMT). Bad weather "caused the plane to crash land, split into two and catch fire," Associated Press news agency quoted local police official Mohammad Najib as saying. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7447243.stm Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Naim 6 Report post Posted June 11, 2008 120 feared killed in Sudan plane crash · Airbus 310 engulfed by huge fire on runway · Pilot was trying to land during dust storm * Sam Jones and agencies * The Guardian, * Wednesday June 11 2008 Plane explodes in Khartoum, Sudan This video frame grab image shows a plane that burst into flames after apparently veering off a runway in Khartoum, Sudan. Photograph: Sudan TV/AP At least 120 people were feared dead last night after a Sudan Airways plane carrying more than 200 passengers burst into flames shortly after landing at Khartoum airport. The flight, which had stopped at Amman en route from Damascus apparently veered off the runway after touching down in bad weather. The Airbus 310 was engulfed in flames, but some passengers were reported to have escaped using the emergency slides before ambulances and fire engines reached the scene. The airport's head of medical services, Major General Muhammad Osman Mahjoub, told Reuters: "There are 120 bodies and 97 survivors." One passenger told Sudanese television the plane had tried to land "but then the captain told us we couldn't land because of bad weather". He said they then flew to the Red Sea city of Port Sudan and circled before returning to Khartoum an hour later. "When [the pilot] tried to land there was a crash," the passenger said. At the time of the landing a dust storm in the Sudanese capital was restricting visibility, residents said. Another passenger said the landing in Khartoum was "not normal" and described "an explosion in the right wing" two or three minutes after the plane landed. A police spokesman, Muhammad Abdel Majid al-Tayeb, said that five bodies had been pulled from the wreckage, adding that about 100 people were safe, and an unspecified number in hospitals. "There are missing passengers who could be still inside the plane, or [who] left the aircraft but did not inform officials that they were passengers," he said. A Sudanese civil aviation spokesman said the pilot had been slightly injured and all but one of the crew had been found alive. Another police source said that 111 people were thought to have survived uninjured while 17 were being treated in hospital. "The task of counting the survivors has been complicated because in the alarm and confusion they dispersed and some of them seem to have left the airport area," he added. At its height, the fire, which was later put out, appeared to be consuming the fuselage and cockpit area. Television pictures showed emergency escape slides deployed at the side of the blazing aircraft. There were conflicting reports as to the cause of the accident. The head of Sudanese police, Muhammad Najib, said the poor weather conditions had "caused the plane to crash land, split into two and catch fire". He added: "We believe that most of the passengers were able to make it out and escape with their lives." But Youssef Ibrahim, director of Khartoum airport, told Sudanese TV the plane had "landed safely" and denied bad weather was responsible for the crash. "One of [the plane's] engines exploded and the plane caught fire," he said. Sudan has a poor aviation safety record. Last month a plane crash in the south of the country killed 24 people, including key members of the southern Sudanese government. In July 2003, a Sudan Airways Boeing 737 en route from Port Sudan to Khartoum crashed soon after takeoff, killing all 115 people on board. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/1...ed=networkfront Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ignatius 4 Report post Posted June 11, 2008 May those perrish R.I.P,... just kinda wondered, when there's a crash happening, strings of other crashes will follow on days and weeks apart.. coincidence?..every year it seems to be like that... <_> Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
H Azmal 0 Report post Posted June 11, 2008 ex-SIA bird? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pieter C. 5 Report post Posted June 11, 2008 ex-SIA bird? ST-AST c/n 437 At Least 29 Dead In Sudanese Airliner Blaze June 10, 2008 A Sudan Airways Airbus A310 coming from Amman and Damascus burst into flames after landing in Khartoum on Tuesday night, killing at least 29 of the roughly 214 people on board, officials and witnesses said on Wednesday. At least 171 passengers were able to escape the burning Sudan Airways plane and survived, while 14 others were still missing, Civil Aviation Authority Spokesman Abdel Hafiz Abdel Rahim said. He said the aviation authority was hoping that those listed as missing had left the airport in the confusion after the blaze and gone straight home without informing authorities. The nationalities of the dead were not immediately known but diplomats who have examined the manifest said that almost all the names appeared to be Arabic. Airport officials said they thought the vast majority were Sudanese. "Whether (the fire was due to) a technical reason we don't know yet," airport director Yusuf Ibrahim told Sudanese TV. "The plane was coming from Amman and Syria... It landed safely at Khartoum airport and they talked to the control tower which told them where to taxi. At this moment an explosion happened," he said. Sudan's aviation authority said a 12-strong team was investigating the cause of the fire and would search for the "black box" flight data recorder of the Airbus A310. Airbus said it was sending a team of five experts from its Toulouse headquarters to Sudan and pledged to help the Sudanese authorities in the investigation. Sudan's Minister of State for Transport Mabrouk Mubarak Salim said there was an explosion in the airliner's right wing engine area. "So far we don't have precise information but we think the weather is a main reason for what happened," he said. A dust storm and heavy rain hit the airport on Tuesday and the plane was initially diverted to Port Sudan on the Red Sea. Sudanese television showed emergency workers using hoses to spray water on the burning fuselage. Teams of workers continued to comb through the blackened wreckage on Wednesday morning. "The operation to recover bodies from the plane is going on now," police deputy director general Al Adel Ajeb said in a television interview. "It is a difficult operation because some bodies are completely burned and there are body parts." One passenger said the plane had tried to land at Khartoum "but then the captain told us we couldn't land because of bad weather." He said the plane then flew to the Red Sea city of Port Sudan before returning to Khartoum an hour later. "When (the pilot) tried to land there was a crash," the passenger told Sudan Television. Another survivor, Al Haj Bashir, said the landing in Khartoum was "not normal" and that there was "an explosion in the right wing" two or three minutes after the plane landed. At its height the fire appeared to be consuming the fuselage and cockpit area. The emergency crews eventually managed to extinguish the blaze. Television pictures showed emergency escape chutes at the side of the blazing aircraft and ambulances on the tarmac. The civil aviation authorities said all but one of the crew had been found alive. Five years ago, a Sudan Airways Boeing 737 crashed shortly after takeoff near Port Sudan, killing 104 passengers and the crew of 11. (Reuters) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
H Azmal 0 Report post Posted June 11, 2008 ST-AST c/n 437 Hmm, Aviation Safety puts it as ST-ATN c/n 548. http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20080610-0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Naim 6 Report post Posted June 11, 2008 Hmm, Aviation Safety puts it as ST-ATN c/n 548. http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20080610-0 Yes, ATN. From http://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-a310-548.htm Operators of the aircraft Delivery date | Airline | Registration | Remark 22/10/1990 Singapore Airlines 9V-STU 10/03/2001 Air India VT-EVF Stored 09/2007 01/12/2007 Sudan Airways ST-ATN Crash-landed at KRT on 10/06/08 at 9 p.m Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Seth K 3 Report post Posted June 11, 2008 Lack of immediate response? RIP to the unlucky victims Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
