Cargo Plane crashes in Pakistan .. :=(
(CNN) – A plane crashed early Sunday in a Karachi residential neighborhood, killing at least eight people onboard and sending flames shooting through the night sky, a Pakistani official said.
The cargo plane took off at 1:45 a.m. from the Jinnah Karachi International Airport for Khartoum, Sudan, said George Pervez, a spokesman for Pakistan’s Civil Aviation Authority. It went down minutes later nearby in the Gulistan-e Johar section of Karachi.
All eight people killed were members of the downed plane’s crew, said Pervez.
An eyewitness told CNN that he saw fire on one of the plane’s wings before it crashed.
While the plane went down in an up-and-coming residential area, there were no reports that anyone on the ground had been hit. The crash forced the collapse of two buildings under construction, residents told GEO News, a CNN affiliate in Pakistan.
Video footage showed scores of people rushing to the crash scene, including firefighters working to douse large flames.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/11/27/pakistan.plane.crash/?hpt=T1
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