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  • Plane explodes in Haiti, killing all 21 on board

    08/24/2003 8:06:32 PM PDT · by HAL9000 · 1 replies · 188+ views
    Associated Press | August 24, 2003
    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - A commuter passenger plane exploded and crashed after take off Sunday from Haiti's northern city of Cap-Haitien, killing all 21 aboard, news reports said. Five minutes after it took off Sunday afternoon, witnesses saw smoke billowing from the twin-propeller plane which sent distress signals to the Cap-Haitien control tower, private Radio Maxima reported. There was an explosion and crash, witnesses told the radio station's director Jean-Robert Lalane, who spoke to The Associated Press AP by telephone from the scene. It was unclear whether the explosion came before or after the crash, he said. Lalane said...