Seven people are dead in the wake of a crash involving an
Ilyushin IL-76 near the Sudanese capital of Khartoum Thursday.
Among the dead were six Russians and one Sudanese. Sudanese
officials praised the flight crew, saying they went to
extraordinary lengths to avoid going down in a populated area.
US airlines experienced a higher rate of flight delays, more
reports of mishandled baggage and a higher number of complaints
about airline service in 2004 than in 2003, according to the US
Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Air Travel Consumer
Report which was issued today. However, the performance figures for
2004 were better than those for most previous years.
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