55 die as jet ploughs into housing estate.FIFTY-FIVE people died when an aged airliner crashed in flames on a housing estate yesterday. Two houses were demolished de·mol·ish tr.v. de·mol·ished, de·mol·ish·ing, de·mol·ish·es 1. To tear down completely; raze. 2. To do away with completely; put an end to. 3. as the Boeing 737-200 ploughed plow also plough n. 1. A farm implement consisting of a heavy blade at the end of a beam, usually hitched to a draft team or motor vehicle and used for breaking up soil and cutting furrows in preparation for sowing. 2. along the earth. But amazingly only four people on the ground died. Fifty-one of the 58 on board, including the six-strong flight crew, perished. Tragedy struck a mile from Patna airport, in eastern India, as the 20-year-old jet came in to land while flying from Calcutta to Delhi. Eye-witnesses said one engine was on fire and the pilot was shouting out of an open window for those on the ground to get out of the way. Survivors were dragged from the burning wreckage wreck·age n. 1. The act of wrecking or the state of being wrecked. 2. Something wrecked. 3. The debris of something wrecked. as a 3,000-strong crowd passed buckets to douse douse 1 also dowse v. doused also dowsed, dous·ing also dows·ing, dous·es also dows·es v.tr. 1. To plunge into liquid; immerse. See Synonyms at dip. 2. the flames. Civil aviation bosses suggested that the Alliance Air pilot might have been flying too low. But survivor Rohit Ranjan, 40, said: "As the plane was about to land, it started shaking." One MP said Alliance, a subsidiary of Indian Airlines Indian Airlines Limited or Indian (Hindi: इंडियन एयरलाइंस लिमिटेड or इंडियन , had been repeatedly rapped over its ageing fleet. |
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