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7 Killed In Crash of Cargo Jet
OTTAWA - A Boeing 747 cargo jet registered in Ghana crashed and burned on takeoff from Halifax airport in the eastern Canadian province of Nova Scotia on Thursday, killing all seven crew on board, police said. The MK Airlines jet was taking off for Spain with a cargo of seafood at 3:55 a.m. when it ran into trouble. The tail section broke off near the end of the runway before the rest of the plane smashed into a nearby rock quarry. Television images showed firefighters working amid the plane=E2=80=99s charred and twisted fuselage. =E2=80=9CWe have recovered some of the remains at the scene.... MSNBC - 7 killed in crash of cargo jet in Canada http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6247477/ |
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G M wrote:
OTTAWA - A Boeing 747 cargo jet registered in Ghana crashed and burned on takeoff from Halifax airport. The MK Airlines jet was taking off for Spain with a cargo of seafood. I guess the Spaniards will take the last of our east-coast fish stocks one way or another. At least they won't get their hands on this shipment. Maybe they'll go back to using factory trawler ships now. |
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"G M" wrote in message
... OTTAWA - A Boeing 747 cargo jet registered in Ghana crashed and burned on takeoff from Halifax airport in the eastern Canadian province of Nova Scotia on Thursday, killing all seven crew on board, police said. I could swear that I read on a Canadian newspaper site this morning that the Canadian authorities were treating the scene as a criminal investigation. They were doing so because of numerous reports of an explosion, followed by the tail falling off. Now I can't find any references to this. Hmmm. Regardless, when was the last time a commercial airliner was brought down at takeoff due to the tail falling off? I can't recall such an event. Perhaps a large mass of the cargo wasn't properly secured, shifting to the tail end of the plane during the takeoff roll. |
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"G M" wrote in message
... OTTAWA - A Boeing 747 cargo jet registered in Ghana crashed and burned on takeoff from Halifax airport in the eastern Canadian province of Nova Scotia on Thursday, killing all seven crew on board, police said. I could swear that I read on a Canadian newspaper site this morning that the Canadian authorities were treating the scene as a criminal investigation. They were doing so because of numerous reports of an explosion, followed by the tail falling off. Now I can't find any references to this. Hmmm. Regardless, when was the last time a commercial airliner was brought down at takeoff due to the tail falling off? I can't recall such an event. Perhaps a large mass of the cargo wasn't properly secured, shifting to the tail end of the plane during the takeoff roll. |
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CBC News reports that one *possibility* was that the aircraft use wrong
taxiway and as aresult got onto runway not at the end of it, giving it far less distance for takeoff. Tail is about 1km from rest of wreckage. TSB investigators was *wondering* if the aircraft ever truly got airborne, but also admitted that it couldn't have skidded that far if it were just on the ground. All speculation at this point in time. No word on whether any lobsters survived the crash :-) |
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nobody wrote:
CBC News reports that one *possibility* was that the aircraft use wrong taxiway and as aresult got onto runway not at the end of it, giving it far less distance for takeoff. Tail is about 1km from rest of wreckage. TSB investigators was *wondering* if the aircraft ever truly got airborne, but also admitted that it couldn't have skidded that far if it were just on the ground. All speculation at this point in time. No word on whether any lobsters survived the crash :-) The news here reported that the accident may have been caused by incorrect cargo loading. Maybe a severe tailbanger? T. |
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nobody wrote:
CBC News reports that one *possibility* was that the aircraft use wrong taxiway and as aresult got onto runway not at the end of it, giving it far less distance for takeoff. Tail is about 1km from rest of wreckage. TSB investigators was *wondering* if the aircraft ever truly got airborne, but also admitted that it couldn't have skidded that far if it were just on the ground. All speculation at this point in time. No word on whether any lobsters survived the crash :-) The news here reported that the accident may have been caused by incorrect cargo loading. Maybe a severe tailbanger? T. |
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