111 confirmed dead in Benin plane crash

Rescue teams combed cold, dark waters off the West African nation of Benin today in a desperate search for survivors of a plane crash that killed at least 111 people.

111 confirmed dead in Benin plane crash
Fri, 26 Dec, 2003 - 19:58

Rescue teams combed cold, dark waters off the West African nation of Benin today in a desperate search for survivors of a plane crash that killed at least 111 people.

Eleven of those who died in Christmas Day’s crash were dragged onto a beach from the wreckage just off Atlantic Ocean port city of Cotonou, Benin’s commercial capital.

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