Jet with 104 aboard crashes in Nigeria

[bad dog]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061029/ap_on_re_af/nigeria_plane_crash_9

ABUJA, Nigeria - A Nigerian airliner carrying 104 people, including the man regarded as a spiritual leader of Nigeria's Sunni Muslims, crashed in a storm Sunday after taking off from the airport in Abuja. Most of those on board were feared dead, but at least six people survived.

The Sunni leader was among those killed in the third passenger jet crash in Nigeria in less than a year.

Debris from the shattered plane, body parts and personal belongings of passengers were strewn over a wooded area the size of a soccer field where the plane went down, about two miles from the end of the runway at the airport in the capital of the oil-rich West African nation.

Smoke rose from the plane's mangled and smoldering fuselage as rescue workers pulled out burned corpses. About 50 bodies were gathered in a corner of the site. The tail of the plane was hanging from a tree.

Sam Adurogboye, an Aviation Ministry spokesman, said the 23-year-old Boeing 737-2B7 crashed just one minute after takeoff. He said the cause of the crash was unknown.

We know why it crashed...

 

[Sarek]

Bill it as a BBQ ad feed some of the starving. Like they'll know the difference.

 

[The Question]

Jesus Christ, I wonder how many dignitaries, banking magnates, army generals and such like will turn out to have been on that plane with all of their next of kin...

 

[headvoid]

This airplane crash may come as a surprise to you.

 

[bad dog]

I see a whole new wave of e-mails from African widows who need to move large sums of cash to the usa.

 

[Kefka]

Spiritual leader of Muslims dies in Nigerian plane crash