Both crew dead as UPS jumbo crashes near Dubai airport

Both crew dead as UPS jumbo crashes near Dubai airport

A major disaster was averted by the pilots of a UPS 747-400 that crashed near the Emirates  Road late on Friday evening when they avoided residential areas after their aircraft developed engine trouble. Two minutes after the plane took off from the Dubai International Airport for Cologne in Germany, the plane developed an onboard crisis, and came down in a ball of fire at about 8pm near the Nad Al Sheba Military Camp close to the Global Village, just 20km from the airport. Both pilots died and their bodies have been recovered, according to police  sources