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Global Aviation News Article
October 29, 2006
Associated Press, "Jet With 104 Aboard Crashes in Nigeria"
A Nigerian airliner carrying 104 people, including the man regarded as the spiritual leader of Muslims in Nigeria, 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.
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. State radio reported that the Boeing 727 was en route to the northwestern city of Sokoto when it crashed shortly after taking off from the airport in Abuja during a storm. Witnesses also said there was a rainstorm at the time.
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