Child apparent sole survivor of crash of Sudanese airliner

Wednesday, July 9, 2003

KHARTOUM, Sudan -- A Sudanese airliner plunged into a hillside while attempting an emergency landing Tuesday, killing 116 people and leaving one survivor -- a 3-year-old boy found injured but alive amid a scene of charred corpses.

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