India Airplane Crash--60 dead

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CBC

Mon Jul 17, 1:30 am

60 dead after plane crashes into Indian housing project

Airport personnel worked frantically to pull survivors from the burning wreckage of a passenger plane that crashed while approaching the runway for a landing Monday.

The Boeing 737-200 flown by Alliance Airways crashed into a government housing project, killing 54 on board the plane and six on the ground.

"The aircraft was 95 percent burnt on crashing. The situation looks quite bad," Alliance Airlines Managing Director A. K. Goyal told Reuters.

Relatives of those on board joined police and airport security in the search on the tarmac for survivors.

Officials said four were pulled out alive and are all in critical condition.

The plane was scheduled to stop in Patna, capital of Bihar state, and then Lucknow, capital of Uttar Pradesh state, before landing in New Delhi.

Officials said one of the engines caught fire as the plane approached the airport.

Alliance Airways is a subsidiary of state-run Indian Airlines.

-- Rachel Gibson (rgibson@hotmail.com), July 17, 2000


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