Rear Door of a Cargo Plane Burst Open, Hurling More Than 100 to Their Deaths

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Rear Door of a Cargo Plane Burst Open, Hurling More Than 100 to Their Deaths

Some 100 passengers were killed Friday when the doors of a cargo plane opened in the mid-air flight over the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to BBC news report.

Government officials have not confirmed the death toll. The accident occurred Thursday night while the aircraft was on its way from Kinshasa to the southern city of Lubumbashi.

(Xinhua News Agency May 9, 2003)