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The Associated Press is reporting that a Sudanese jetliner -- reportedly a Boeing 737 -- crashed early Tuesday killing at least 105 passengers and 11 crewmembers. One child survived, the Sudan News Agency reported via AP.
Press reports say the 737 was on a domestic flight from the Port Sudan airport to the capital, Khartoum, when its captain reported trouble and it crashed during takeoff, Sudan Airways director Ahmed Ismail Zuwary, told the news agency.
The plane crashed in an empty area near the Port Sudan airport on the Red Sea, it said.
Press reports say the 737 was on a domestic flight from the Port Sudan airport to the capital, Khartoum, when its captain reported trouble and it crashed during takeoff, Sudan Airways director Ahmed Ismail Zuwary, told the news agency.
The plane crashed in an empty area near the Port Sudan airport on the Red Sea, it said.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan - A Sudanese airliner plunged into a hillside while attempting an emergency landing Tuesday, killing 116 people and leaving one survivor — a 3-year-old boy found injured but alive amid a scene of charred corpses.
The Sudan Airways plane, headed from Port Sudan on the northeastern coast to the capital, crashed before dawn in a wooded area just after takeoff. The Boeing 737-200 wreckage was badly burned, and authorities decided to rapidly bury all bodies, including eight foreigners.
"The bodies were buried in a mass grave after performing the Muslim prayer because the conditions of the bodies would not allow transporting and delivering them to the relatives," the Red Sea State governor, Hatem el-Wassila, told the official Sudan News Agency.
The governor said the sole survivor, 3-year-old Mohammed el-Fateh Osman, had lost his right leg and suffered burns. The boy was in intensive care at the Port Sudan hospital, and doctors said he was in stable condition, el-Wassila said.
Eleven crew members and 105 passengers died, including three people from India and one each from Britain, China, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates. There was also a woman whose nationality was unknown, state radio said.
A senior air force official and a member of Parliament also died in the crash, it said.
A team of experts flew to the debris-covered scene to investigate the crash, and recovered the black box flight recorder. Initial reports cited a technical problem.
Boeing has provided technical information about the jet to investigators but has not yet been invited by either the airline or the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board to the crash site, said Liz Verdier, a spokeswoman for the company.
The plane, a 737-200C, was delivered to the airline in September 1975, and the condition of the plane would depend on how well it was maintained, Verdier said.
About 10 minutes after takeoff, the pilot radioed the control tower about a problem in one engine, the Red Sea State governor told the Sudan News Agency.
The pilot announced he was returning for an emergency landing, but the plane went down a few miles outside the airport, the governor said.
A local journalist described the scene after the crash.
"Bodies were scattered everywhere, burned and charred and could be seen all over the place," Muhammad Osman Babikir of El-Sahafa daily said by phone. "There was no way of performing the Muslim ritual of washing the bodies. It was horrible."
Foreign Affairs Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail blamed U.S. sanctions imposed against Sudan in 1997, saying they had led to shortages of vital aircraft parts.
"This is a sad incident," he said, during a visit to Mozambique. "We simply cannot get the parts to maintain our airplanes."
He called on President Bush, who is on a tour of Africa, to drop the sanctions. The United States imposed sanctions claiming Sudan sponsored terrorism, allowed human rights abuses and destabilized neighboring countries.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Philip T. Reeker offered condolences and said no American casualties were reported. He also said there was no ban on equipment needed for aviation safety.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - U.S. sanctions on Sudan include exemptions for spare parts for civilian airliners, a State Department spokesman said, rejecting claims by a Sudanese official that the sanctions had caused a deadly plane crash.
"While there are US sanctions in effect against Sudan and other state sponsors of terrorism, specific licenses may be issued on a case by case basis for the exportation of goods, services and technology to ensure the safety of civil aviation and safe operation of US origin commercial passenger aircrafts," spokesman Philip Reeker said.
He did not know if Sudanese officials had requested a license for airline parts, but said other countries under sanctions have received permission to buy parts for US-made planes.
Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail told reporters on the sidelines of the African Union summit in Maputo that a plane crash that killed 115 people early Tuesday was the direct result of US sanctions.
"This plane had not been serviced for five or six years," he said in the Mozambican capital.
The Sudan Airways Boeing 737-200 crashed shortly after takeoff from Port Sudan on the Red Sea bound for Khartoum, airline and government officials said in the Sudanese capital.
The dead included a senior military officer and eight foreigners.
The Sudan Airways plane, headed from Port Sudan on the northeastern coast to the capital, crashed before dawn in a wooded area just after takeoff. The Boeing 737-200 wreckage was badly burned, and authorities decided to rapidly bury all bodies, including eight foreigners.
"The bodies were buried in a mass grave after performing the Muslim prayer because the conditions of the bodies would not allow transporting and delivering them to the relatives," the Red Sea State governor, Hatem el-Wassila, told the official Sudan News Agency.
The governor said the sole survivor, 3-year-old Mohammed el-Fateh Osman, had lost his right leg and suffered burns. The boy was in intensive care at the Port Sudan hospital, and doctors said he was in stable condition, el-Wassila said.
Eleven crew members and 105 passengers died, including three people from India and one each from Britain, China, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates. There was also a woman whose nationality was unknown, state radio said.
A senior air force official and a member of Parliament also died in the crash, it said.
A team of experts flew to the debris-covered scene to investigate the crash, and recovered the black box flight recorder. Initial reports cited a technical problem.
Boeing has provided technical information about the jet to investigators but has not yet been invited by either the airline or the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board to the crash site, said Liz Verdier, a spokeswoman for the company.
The plane, a 737-200C, was delivered to the airline in September 1975, and the condition of the plane would depend on how well it was maintained, Verdier said.
About 10 minutes after takeoff, the pilot radioed the control tower about a problem in one engine, the Red Sea State governor told the Sudan News Agency.
The pilot announced he was returning for an emergency landing, but the plane went down a few miles outside the airport, the governor said.
A local journalist described the scene after the crash.
"Bodies were scattered everywhere, burned and charred and could be seen all over the place," Muhammad Osman Babikir of El-Sahafa daily said by phone. "There was no way of performing the Muslim ritual of washing the bodies. It was horrible."
Foreign Affairs Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail blamed U.S. sanctions imposed against Sudan in 1997, saying they had led to shortages of vital aircraft parts.
"This is a sad incident," he said, during a visit to Mozambique. "We simply cannot get the parts to maintain our airplanes."
He called on President Bush, who is on a tour of Africa, to drop the sanctions. The United States imposed sanctions claiming Sudan sponsored terrorism, allowed human rights abuses and destabilized neighboring countries.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Philip T. Reeker offered condolences and said no American casualties were reported. He also said there was no ban on equipment needed for aviation safety.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - U.S. sanctions on Sudan include exemptions for spare parts for civilian airliners, a State Department spokesman said, rejecting claims by a Sudanese official that the sanctions had caused a deadly plane crash.
"While there are US sanctions in effect against Sudan and other state sponsors of terrorism, specific licenses may be issued on a case by case basis for the exportation of goods, services and technology to ensure the safety of civil aviation and safe operation of US origin commercial passenger aircrafts," spokesman Philip Reeker said.
He did not know if Sudanese officials had requested a license for airline parts, but said other countries under sanctions have received permission to buy parts for US-made planes.
Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail told reporters on the sidelines of the African Union summit in Maputo that a plane crash that killed 115 people early Tuesday was the direct result of US sanctions.
"This plane had not been serviced for five or six years," he said in the Mozambican capital.
The Sudan Airways Boeing 737-200 crashed shortly after takeoff from Port Sudan on the Red Sea bound for Khartoum, airline and government officials said in the Sudanese capital.
The dead included a senior military officer and eight foreigners.
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Not according to News 24 ?
flyboy6876 Heard earlier on that the sole survivor died in the hospital.
Damn shame this.
Damn shame this.
Not according to this News 24 Article (main news at this hour?
The little Sudanese boy who emerged as the sole survivor of a horrific plane crash which killed 115 people could talk and drink juices on Wednesday as he recovered in a hospital here, doctors and relatives said.
Doctors were mystified as to how three-year-old Mohamed al-Fateh, who was burned and lost part of a leg, had survived Tuesday's crash near Sudan's Red Sea coast, speculating that he was thrown clear of the plane on a piece of wreckage and may have landed on a bush.
The Sudan Airways Boeing 737 was destroyed in a ball of fire as it attempted to land back at Port Sudan after apparently suffering an engine problem soon after takeoff.
"Mohamed is okay. He speaks and drinks juices, thanks to God," his uncle Abdel Hadi Ibrahim Abu-Saba'ah said after seeing the boy in the intensive care ward of the police hospital here.
Mohamed "is in a stable condition, with plastered burns to the face, neck, right hand and right leg," said Abu-Saba'ah, the brother of the boy's mother, Lubna Ibrahim Abu-Saba'ah, who died in the crash.
He said Mohamed was returning with his mother to Khartoum after they attended the wedding of Lubna's cousin in Port Sudan.
State television showed Mohamed in the arms of a doctor, enveloped in a sheet and his left leg wrapped in a bandage, while his face appeared calm but covered with dark spots, perhaps burns or bruises.
He was treated first in a hospital in Port Sudan before being brought to the intensive care unit of Saheroun, a private branch of Khartoum's police hospital, relatives and hospital sources said.
Doctor Abdel Samei Abdallah al-Tayeb told AFP that 14 to 15 percent of Mohamed's body is burnt, including the face, the right thigh, the right hand and the perineum, the area between the anus and the scrotum.
"As the perineum is burnt, the body cannot excrete and therefore we have to do an operation to divert the excretory outlet," said Tayeb, adding that they would do the operation either Wednesday evening or Thursday.
He said it was unclear how the boy lost part of his lower right leg, or even how he survived at all.
"It was likely that he was flung off on a burning piece of the plane, like one from the wing."
Asked about reports from Port Sudan that the boy was found on a thorn bush near the wreckage, Tayeb said the tree might have served as "a cushion that helped the boy to survive".
The doctor said Mohamed was taking fruit juices by the mouth as well as intravenous fluids and rated his chances of survival as high.
The official newspaper Al-Anbaa said the government was assuming all costs of the boy's treatment and reported that he arrived here accompanied by First vice-president Ali Osman Taha, who had led an official delegation to Port Sudan.
Among those killed in the crash was Sudan's air defence commander Major General Nur al-Hoda Fadhlallah and eight foreigners, including three Indians, one Chinese and one Briton.
The pilot of the flight to Khartoum reported "technical problems with one of the engines" 10 minutes after takeoff and told the control tower he was returning to the airport, Minister of State for Civil Aviation Mohamed Hassan al-Bahi told Al Anbaa.
The plane crashed and caught fire as it tried to land, hitting the ground about 18km from Port Sudan airport, officials said.
The airline has vigorously denied accusations that slack maintenance was to blame for the crash, while setting up a committee to investigate the causes of the tragedy.
Sudan Airways general manager Ahmed Ismail Zumrawy also denied that the Boeing 737 lacked spare parts, following a statement by Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail on Tuesday that "there are no spare parts available to service Boeings in Sudan because of the American embargo imposed in the 1970s."
A US State Department official said later on Tuesday that US sanctions on Sudan include exemptions for spare parts for civilian airliners, rejecting Ismail's claims.
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Rumour??!!
Was speaking to somone on the apron here in GGhartoon(HSSS) and there is speculation of engine fire and then shutdown of the wrong engine??!!
Only heresay coming out of the Sudan Air maintenance hangar.
Will be keeping my ear to the hot tarmac and will let you guys know.
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Only heresay coming out of the Sudan Air maintenance hangar.
Will be keeping my ear to the hot tarmac and will let you guys know.
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Not tonight....
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Sorry boet but not flying today or tommorrow. Dont know what Ill be flying next but either a 200 or 208 for WFP here out of Khartoon.
We go by the callsigns of "R045W" or "R080W" amongst others.
Also flying for a crowd called the "Civil Protection and Monitoring Team". Callsign "CPM9"
Give us a shout on 126.9 or 124.1 for Southern Sudan ops.
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Sorry boet but not flying today or tommorrow. Dont know what Ill be flying next but either a 200 or 208 for WFP here out of Khartoon.
We go by the callsigns of "R045W" or "R080W" amongst others.
Also flying for a crowd called the "Civil Protection and Monitoring Team". Callsign "CPM9"
Give us a shout on 126.9 or 124.1 for Southern Sudan ops.
hb4g
