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Plane Crash in United Arab Emirates
Aired February 10, 2004 - 05:08 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: This news just coming into us right now. In fact, we're just getting details of a plane crash in the United Arab Emirates. We know at least 35 people are dead. It happened just about an hour and a half ago.
Our Caroline Faraj joins us live by phone from her listening post in Paris with more on this crash.
What are your sources telling you -- Caroline.
CAROLINE FARAJ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Carol, we just, I just concluded a call right now with a senior official at the airport. We've been receiving so many conflicting information about whether the plane after takeoff or after, you know, just a few minutes before landing. Now he is confirming the following. The plane, which is Kish Airlines -- that is an Iranian carrier -- just two miles away from the international airport in Sharjah, which is one of the Emirates that belongs to the United Arab Emirates, before landing, two miles before landing it had a crash. And it has crashed in a residential area, in a street. Luckily there was a school and a supermarket, but the plane crashed in between. Luckily nobody was hurt from the school nor the supermarket.
Now, the information we are getting from this senior official at the airport is also that there was 39 people on board, including a baby, as well as the six crew members. So the total is 39 plus six. This is what they have told us right now -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Do we know, did anyone see the plane come down? Is there any clues as to why this plane crashed?
FARAJ: Well, it is a residential area, as I just mentioned, and the type of building over there, it is very packed, in a way. And especially this area where the plane had crashed, it is, it's a bit packed with buildings. So basically we talked to several people who saw the plane coming and they also heard, of course, the crash, because it's a Fokker-50, which is a German made jet. And they heard, of course, the crash and they saw it.
But no reports yet. We're expecting to hear from the officials, because they are calling for a press conference in one hour from now in Sharjah to give more details.
However, regarding the, how many people survived, we don't have a final figure, but what we are gathering from the officials is basically 35 people at least have been killed and they're expecting some survivors. They already showed some survivors on the screen on the state owned television. But they also showed some burned bodies -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Oh, just terrible.
All right, Caroline Faraj, we'll let you gather more information.
We'll get back to you when you have more to pass along to our viewers.
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Aired February 10, 2004 - 05:08 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: This news just coming into us right now. In fact, we're just getting details of a plane crash in the United Arab Emirates. We know at least 35 people are dead. It happened just about an hour and a half ago.
Our Caroline Faraj joins us live by phone from her listening post in Paris with more on this crash.
What are your sources telling you -- Caroline.
CAROLINE FARAJ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Carol, we just, I just concluded a call right now with a senior official at the airport. We've been receiving so many conflicting information about whether the plane after takeoff or after, you know, just a few minutes before landing. Now he is confirming the following. The plane, which is Kish Airlines -- that is an Iranian carrier -- just two miles away from the international airport in Sharjah, which is one of the Emirates that belongs to the United Arab Emirates, before landing, two miles before landing it had a crash. And it has crashed in a residential area, in a street. Luckily there was a school and a supermarket, but the plane crashed in between. Luckily nobody was hurt from the school nor the supermarket.
Now, the information we are getting from this senior official at the airport is also that there was 39 people on board, including a baby, as well as the six crew members. So the total is 39 plus six. This is what they have told us right now -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Do we know, did anyone see the plane come down? Is there any clues as to why this plane crashed?
FARAJ: Well, it is a residential area, as I just mentioned, and the type of building over there, it is very packed, in a way. And especially this area where the plane had crashed, it is, it's a bit packed with buildings. So basically we talked to several people who saw the plane coming and they also heard, of course, the crash, because it's a Fokker-50, which is a German made jet. And they heard, of course, the crash and they saw it.
But no reports yet. We're expecting to hear from the officials, because they are calling for a press conference in one hour from now in Sharjah to give more details.
However, regarding the, how many people survived, we don't have a final figure, but what we are gathering from the officials is basically 35 people at least have been killed and they're expecting some survivors. They already showed some survivors on the screen on the state owned television. But they also showed some burned bodies -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Oh, just terrible.
All right, Caroline Faraj, we'll let you gather more information.
We'll get back to you when you have more to pass along to our viewers.
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