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| IL-76 for Sudan Crashes in Fireball at Karachi Airport |
| 2010-11-28 |
| At least eight people were killed when a Russian-made cargo plane crashed in a fireball seconds after taking off from Karachi on Sunday, a spokesman for Pakistan's civil aviation authority said. The death toll was expected to rise, with an unknown number of labourers feared killed when the Ilyushin IL-76, bound for the Sudanese capital Khartoum, Wonder what kind of cargo to Sudan needs to go by air freight - maybe some equipment for Chinese oil or mining ops? Either that or munitions of some sort. When I first saw the crawler I thought it might have been one of our Afghanistan supply flights, but fortunately it was not - not that it matters to the flight crew. slammed into airport buildings in the Pakistani business capital. The explosion caused by the crash was so powerful that local residents thought it was triggered by a bomb, my initial suspicion as well, and I still would not rule it out said Karachi police chief Fayyas Leghari. |
| Posted by:Glenmore |
| #4 #3 - the Paks need substantial foreign aid just to try to attain the level of illiterate peasantry. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-11-28 19:41 |
| #3 Most soviet mechanical stuff is designed to be maintained by illiterate peasants. Maybe the Pakistanis need to bring in some outside advisors to get them up to speed. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2010-11-28 16:11 |
| #2 What did they expect? A soviet jet flown by pakistanis practicing inshalla maintenance. LOL. |
| Posted by: Hellfish 2010-11-28 11:57 |
| #1 I think the Karachi-Khartoum direct flight is sort of like the New York-DC Acela, but for terrorists. But I bet Air Pakistan has better sandwiches than Amtrak. |
| Posted by: Helmuth, Speaking for Jith9644 2010-11-28 07:36 |