سقوط طائرة شحن سودانية في مطار الشارقة

Quote: B707 crash SHJ Was in SHJ this afternoon, and saw the Azza 707 taxi out while we were being driven to our aircraft. It looked pretty nice. Of course a nice paintjob doesn't say much about the technical status... Luckily we didn't see the take off or the actual accident. Big clouds of smoke got our attention. The airport authorities found quite a few aircraftparts on the runway, so the sequence of events probably started during take off. Field was closed for an hour or so while they collected al the stuff. Our fueler had also fueled the 707, and said it was leaking fuel from several places on the wing. I'm sure a 707 can be a perfectly safe aircraft to fly, even if it is 40-some yrs old. But you have to maintain it well. The crew were all Sudanese, cargo flight to Khartoum. We lost some college's today folks. Poor guys having to fly such equipment.