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Pilots suggest technical issues led to plane crash |
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10.23.2009 |
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Dubai Pilots operating out of Sharjah International Airport and eyewitnesses have suggested that the ill-fated Sudan Airways flight SD2241 that crashed on Wednesday could have faced technical problems before takeoff.
Sharjah officials have ruled out the possibility of overloading as a cause of the crash.
Six crew members on board the Khartoum-bound Sudanese plane died when it crashed soon after taking off from Sharjah airport. The Boeing 707 belonging to Azza Air was leased to Sudan Airways.
It was previously suggested that overloading could have caused the crash, but Sharjah officials and officials from the Sudanese consulate in Dubai said that the weight of the cargo was within the set limit.
Parts on runway
A Sharjah-based pilot posting on an online pilots' forum wrote that the person who had filled the Sudan Airways cargo plane with fuel told him that fuel was "leaking from several places on the wing".
"The airport authorities found quite a few aircraft parts on the runway, so the sequence of events probably started during takeoff," he said.
Sharjah airport authorities said that they can only comment on the cause of the crash when an investigation is complete.
Another poster alleged that the flap of the plane, which controls ascent and descent, could have fallen off. Eyewitnesses had earlier confirmed to Gulf News that they saw "something fall off the plane" during takeoff.
A pilot who witnessed the crash, Ramsey Yasseen, said that the captain avoided further casualties by deliberately turning the plane 90 degrees so that it would nosedive into the ground when he realised that he could not save it.
The captain's cousin, Mohammad Kambal Al Zubair, said at a memorial service for the victims of the crash at the Sudanese Club in Dubai that he did not know the pilot was in the UAE before news of the crash.
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Source:www.zawya.com |
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