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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 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.
Sudan has suffered few passenger-plane accidents in recent years, but several crashes of military aircraft during a 20-year-old civil war.
Two years ago, a military-plane crash in the south killed the country's deputy defense minister and 13 other high-ranking officers.
In 1996, a Sudanese passenger jet crashed during a sandstorm while trying to make an emergency landing outside Khartoum, killing 50 people. A decade before that, the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army shot down a Sudan Airways aircraft shortly after it took off, killing all 70 people on board.
The rebels have been fighting for greater autonomy for the mainly Christian and animist south from Sudan's Islamic government. Fighting has raged mainly in the south.
Port Sudan, in the northeast, is the country's only significant port. It is also the site of the national oil refinery and the terminal of the pipeline from oil fields of south-central Sudan.
Taken from Aol news, thought i'd share it with you guys. Kinda weird, only 1 surviver. Just the baby, it was said that the crash site was horrible as they coudnt perform the Muslim Rituals of washing the bodies, and the baby survived . Sudan is blaiming the U.S now, everbody wants a go at the U.S now =/
And keith I crack much worse jokes about my own loved ones and deceased family memebers, that make me a bad person lol ? especiall yif you wont do it lol.
That's kind of sad and unfortunate, but mainly bizarre, anyway reading through it, the first and only thing that came to my mind was the film - Unbreakable
Is it a miracle or a curse that that poor kid survived though?
Originally posted by Detomah That's kind of sad and unfortunate, but mainly bizarre, anyway reading through it, the first and only thing that came to my mind was the film - Unbreakable
Is it a miracle or a curse that that poor kid survived though?
*wonders if theres ever going to be a movie about this* think the kid is lucky tho, he/she has the chance to build up a life while all the other ppl cant anymore. Im sure the kid will end up somewhere loved
Originally posted by Detomah
Is it a miracle or a curse that that poor kid survived though?
Its better to be alive than dead, and kids have it easy due to the lack of formation of nural pathways and the brain they can adapt to the change much easier than an adult that lost their whole family.
Originally posted by Detomah Dude is tha a touch of disgreement in your text there....
I don't get how someone that enjoys things like Buffy, Angel, Millenium, etc so much, could not believe that things like that can happen for a reason?
Yep I have a vivid imagination and like the thought of believing in things which seem impossible to us normally.
Its not that samuels point and link was far far too tenous thousands of people have lucky escapes why track it to willis ? The film was just too hackneyed but tried to take itsself very very seriously. Thats the different buffy and angel are fantasy and escapism and dont take themselves that seriously.
I just felt the plot script and acting and those chose to play teh roles were not adequate for the film lol
And remember detty I am always right, and if you dont say yes no more pics pf hermonie
Originally posted by John Crichton Its not that samuels point and link was far far too tenous thousands of people have lucky escapes why track it to willis ? The film was just too hackneyed but tried to take itsself very very seriously. Thats the different buffy and angel are fantasy and escapism and dont take themselves that seriously.
I just felt the plot script and acting and those chose to play teh roles were not adequate for the film lol
And remember detty I am always right, and if you dont say yes no more pics pf hermonie
Ok I get ya, you mean, more the films portrayal rather than whether it could or could not actually happen, ok I'll let you off for that bit then.
As for the film itself, a lot of people have said that it took itself too seriously, yet the actual directors dialogue on the special edition DVD actually says the exact opposite of that though, they stated quite clearly that it was meant to be fun and not taken seriously, hence silly bits like the speech Jackson gives when the man comes to buy the picture and the rediculously large amount of weights that Willis can lift, etc.
In my opinion, if anything it is the fact that the main two people Jackson and Willis, actually act their roles too well for their own good and give it the wrong portrayal, not the film itself.
But yes, if you look into any film really closely you can see severe flaws in it, there's virtually not a film in existence that you could not do that with. I prefer to just enjoy them for what they actually are.... films.
News Flash: Plane Crashes in Sudan, Baby survived
. Sudan is blaiming the U.S now, everbody wants a go at the U.S now =/
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