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Liquor Dealer · 05-09-2003, 05:56 AM

Is there anyway you can imagine what these people though in the instant after the doors opened and they exited the plane?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,86441,00.html

Friday, May 09, 2003
Associated Press

KINSHASA, Congo — More than half of the 200 passengers aboard a cargo plane flying across Congo were feared dead after the aircraft's rear door burst open in mid-flight and sucked them out of the airplane, airport officials said Friday.

Two officials at the international airport in Congo's capital, Kinshasa independently told The Associated Press that 129 people were believed to have been sucked out of the plane. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity. Their accounts could not be immediately confirmed.

The plane, a privately-owned, Russian-built Ilyushin 76 (search), had apparently been chartered to transport Congolese police force members and their families from the capital, Kinshasa, to the southeastern city of Lubumbashi.

After the accident occurred some 45 minutes into the flight, the pilots managed to turn back and land the plane in Kinshasa, Awan said.

05-09-2003, 05:56 AM	#1 (permalink)
Liquor Dealer Super Agitator Location: Just SW of Nowhere!!! In the good old US of A	Fear of flying? Is there anyway you can imagine what these people though in the instant after the doors opened and they exited the plane? http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,86441,00.html Friday, May 09, 2003 Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo — More than half of the 200 passengers aboard a cargo plane flying across Congo were feared dead after the aircraft's rear door burst open in mid-flight and sucked them out of the airplane, airport officials said Friday. Two officials at the international airport in Congo's capital, Kinshasa independently told The Associated Press that 129 people were believed to have been sucked out of the plane. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity. Their accounts could not be immediately confirmed. The plane, a privately-owned, Russian-built Ilyushin 76 (search), had apparently been chartered to transport Congolese police force members and their families from the capital, Kinshasa, to the southeastern city of Lubumbashi. After the accident occurred some 45 minutes into the flight, the pilots managed to turn back and land the plane in Kinshasa, Awan said. __________________ Life isn't always a bowl of cherries, sometimes it's more like a jar of Jalapenos --- what you say or do today might burn your ass tomorrow!!!