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A Ghanaian-registered Boeing 747 cargo jet crashed and exploded on take off from Halifax Airport in eastern Canada on Thursday, killing all six crew on board.
“It’s a Boeing 747 jumbo. It was only the crew on board, there were six of them and there were no survivors,” Wisdom Ametepe, of MK Airlines in Ghana, said. “It’s too early to say what caused the crash. We have to wait for an investigation,” he said.
Ametepe said the crew was from Zimbabwe and Britain. He said MK Airlines usually picked up fish in Canada.
“We haven’t had any problems since we’ve been operating (out of Ghana) since 1994,” Ametepe said, when asked about the company’s safety record.
Police said 20 fire engines were still battling a blaze in the wreckage, part of which ended up in a rock quarry close to the end of the runway. The MK Airlines jet had been heading for Spain with a cargo of fish and lobster.
“Right now we’re trying to determine if it got off the runway or if it stayed on the runway before the crash actually took place,” a police spokesman told reporters.
The airport was shut down after the accident and remains closed
taken from http://news.airwise.com/stories/2004/10/1097745573.html
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