Boeing 747 plane crash kills seven in Halifax

Posted on October 15, 2004 | Filed Under Life

When you turn on the television in the morning and see some sort of disaster, you are glued to events, sometimes for hours. It always seems so far away — volcanoes, earthquakes, floods, hurricanes or plane crashes, you feel bad for the people that it’s happening to, but you always think “I’m glad it didn’t happen here.”

Yesterday, I woke up to news that a 747 jumbo jet had crashed at the Halifax International Airport, about 10-15 minutes from my house. Luckily the jet was a cargo plane, so it wasn’t full of passengers, but it did have seven crew members on board — there were no survivors.

Apparently the tail of the plane snapped off during take-off, leaving the pilots totally unable to control the aircraft. The plane crashed into the woods seconds after liftoff, exploding into a fireball that reportedly lit up the early morning sky.

MK Airlines, have had four planes crash since 1990, but company officials said they wanted to concentrate on the families of this crash — fair enough, but we also have to know what the cause of the accident is.

“Utter Destruction” is how the crash site has been describe by witnesses. My sympathies go out to the families of the crash.

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