A cargo plane has crashed at UAE Sharjah airport. First report from Al Arabiya indicates several victims. The plane which crashed near the airport in the United Arab Emirates is a Boeing 707 cargo plane. As this report is written, up to 6 deaths have been registered. The plane crashed at about 16:00 GMT+4 while taking off from the Sharjah International Airport in UAE. About 6 people were on board the cargo plane which most probably was from Sudan. Emergency team reports no survivors for now.
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Six Sudanese crew members were killed in the crash of their cargo aircraft near Sharjah airport in the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday, Al Arabiya television reported. It was not immediately clear to which airline the aircraft belonged. A source at a freight handler in the emirate of Sharjah said the cargo plane belonged to a Sudanese airline and that it crashed after take off.
A Sudanese cargo plane crashed on Wednesday near the airport in Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates, killing all six crew members, UAE civil aviation director Khaled al-Qassimi said. Officials had earlier said the crash was at the airport and one had said the aircraft was Iranian.
At least six people were killed in a cargo plane crash near Sharjah airport in the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday intial reports said the plane was Sudanese but there are reports the plane is Iranian.
"A cargo plane crashed today at the airport in Sharjah," an unnamed official told the AFP news agency, adding that a "state of emergency had been declared at the airport." All six people aboard the Boeing 707 were reported to be dead. It was unclear where the plane was from as AFP reported the plane was Iranian and the Reuters news agency reported the plane was Sudanese.
Sharjah one of seven emirates in the UAE federation and neighbors the tourism hub of Dubai.
Six people are presumed dead after a cargo plane crashed soon after take-off from Sharjah Airport. The Boeing 707 crashed about two kilometres from the airport soon after taking off from Sharjah to Khartoum, the Sudanese capital.
The plane was owned by Sudan Air but operated by a separate Sudanese company. Six crew members, all of whom are believed to be Sudanese, are feared dead when the plane caught fire soon after crashing.
Saif al Suwaidi, the director of the General Civil Aviation Authority, said he had sent an investigation team to the site but that it was too soon to speculate about the causes of the accident. A spokesman for Sharjah Airport said the plane was "completely destroyed" in the collision.
Witnesses posting on Twitter and online said a section of the plane may have fallen off soon after it took off.