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Old 8th Mar 2003, 20:27
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Question Possibly Engine Trouble ...

Engine trouble is likely to have caused the fiery crash of an Air Algerie passenger jet that killed 102 people in the Sahara Desert, said Algeria's Transport Ministry.

Experts from the Chicago-based Boeing company were heading for Algeria to help in the investigation, said the government-run APS news agency, without providing details on when the team might arrive.

Interior minister Nourredine Zerhouni said: "The plane was picking up speed when one of the engines caught fire."

The Boeing 737 crashed at the end of the runway in Tamanrasset, 1 600km south of Algiers, sliding into the airport's perimeter fence and bursting into flames.

A total of 96 passengers and six crew were killed, said the transport ministry. One passenger, a young soldier, survived.

All that was left of the aircraft was a burned-out wreck, with blackened pieces scattered across the sands. Tearful relatives gathered at Algiers' airport, where the flight was
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