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250 survive plane crash

KANO (Nigeria), SEPT. 5. Around 250 passengers, including Indians and Pakistanis, and crew escaped unhurt when an Egypt Air plane from Cairo to Abidjan crash-landed in northern Nigeria, airport officials and passengers said today.

The plane was attempting to make an emergency landing at the international airport in Kano, northern Nigeria's largest city, on Tuesday when it suddenly nose-dived, they said.

- AFP

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