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At least 28 people have been killed after a Sudan Airways passenger jet veered off the runway on landing at Khartoum international airport and burst into flames.
Khartoum airport's head of medical services, Major-General Mohamed Osman Mahjoub, said authorities had so far established there were 123 survivors but 66 people were unaccounted for.
Earlier reports of 120 dead had proved incorrect, he said.
Twenty-eight bodies had been taken to a mortuary, he said, adding that some of the 66 people unaccounted for might have survived and left the airport during the confusion caused when the aircraft burst into flames on Tuesday night.
Police deputy director-general Al Adel Ajeb told Sudan Television that "the operation to recover bodies from the plane is going on now".
"It is a difficult operation because some bodies are completely burnt and there are body parts," he said.
A police official said that emergency services had rushed to the scene and managed to put out the blaze.
Conflicting reports
Al Jazeera's Imran Garda, reporting from Khartoum, said there were many conflicting reports on what exactly happened.
Police chief General Mohammad Najib said bad weather had "caused the plane to crash land, split into two and catch fire".
At the time of the landing a sand storm in the Sudanese capital was restricting visibility, residents said.
But Yusuf Ibrahim, the director of Khartoum airport, said bad weather was not to blame and that the jet had landed safely and was about to park when an explosion happened on board.
Passengers who escaped the jet told Al Jazeera that the aircraft's right engine caught fire shortly after landing and the flames quickly spread.
The flight, reportedly an Airbus, had arrived from the Jordanian capital Amman late on Tuesday.
In July 2003, 115 people were killed when a Sudan Airways Boeing 737 was destroyed after it caught fire while attempting to land at the Red Sea coast resort of Port Sudan.
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An image taken from video footage shows rescue workers fighting the flames of a Sudan Airways plane after it burst into flames upon landing at Khartoum airport June 10, 2008.
Al-Jazeera
