Cargo plane crashes in Sudan
2005-02-03 14:15
Khartoum - A Sudanese cargo plane crashed near a village outside the capital Khartoum on Thursday, killing all seven crew on board, most of them Russians, the official SUNA news agency said.
The plane, belonging to private company Tayaran al-Gharb, was flying in from the United Arab Emirates when it crashed near Aad Babaker, about 15km west of Khartoum, SUNA reported.
Six Russian crew members and their Sudanese interpreter were killed, it said.
SUNA, quoting civil aviation ministry chief Othman al-Badri Abdallah, said the plane had run out of fuel.
Last October, four Russian crewmen were killed when an Antonov-12 cargo plane crashed in central Sudan.
The most serious accident of recent years occurred in July 2003 when a Sudanese airliner crashed in the east of the country, killing 115 people. The sole survivor was a two-year-old boy.
- AFP