Sudan Airways Flight 139 crash

Sudan Airways Flight 139

Sudan Airways Flight 139 refers to a passenger flight that crashed on 8 July 2003 at Port Sudan. The aircraft was due to operate a domestic scheduled Port Sudan–Khartoum passenger service; some 15 minutes after takeoff it experienced a loss of power in one of its engines that prompted the flightcrew to return to the airport of departure for an emergency landing. In doing so, the pilots missed the airport runway and the airplane descended until it hit the ground, disintegrating after the impact, claiming the lives of all 117 occupants aboard the aircraft.

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