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Mar 23, 2009, 2:46 GMT

Two dead in crash landing of cargo plane in Japan (Roundup)

Tokyo - The pilot and copilot of a Federal Express cargo plane were killed Monday in a fiery landing at Narita airport near Tokyo, a spokeswoman of Narita's Red Cross Hospital said. The only people on board the MD-11 operated by FedEx were a pilot and co-pilot, both of them US citizens, Japanese news reports said. The plane was reduced to ashes and debris. Television footage showed the crippled plane bouncing twice, as it veered off the runway aflame. Strong crosswinds of up to 72 kilometres per hour bounced the plane - an MD-11 coming from China - twice on the landing strip before 7 am (2200 GMT Sunday), causing it to flip, and immediately break into flames, Japan9s broadcaster NHK reported. It took the firefighters about two hours to put out the flames. The plane had come from Guangzhou in China.

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