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| Plane comes off Brussels runway | Plane comes off Brussels runway |
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| A large cargo plane has slid off the runway and split in two at Brussels Airport during take-off, but it did not catch fire and there were no injuries. | |
| Firefighters have been coating the wings with retardant foam as the plane was full of jet fuel when the crash happened at 1330 (1130 GMT) on Sunday. | |
| The Boeing 747 belongs to US freight company Kalitta and had five people aboard, an airport spokeswoman said. | The Boeing 747 belongs to US freight company Kalitta and had five people aboard, an airport spokeswoman said. |
| It is not known what caused the plane, said to be bound for Bahrain, to crash. | |
| Francis Vermeiren, mayor of the nearby town of Zaventem, said the Boeing had come to a halt at the end of a runway, near houses and a cemetery. | |
| Mr Vermeiren, who is coordinating the emergency effort, said he did not know what the plane was carrying. | |
| Speaking to Belgian radio station VRT, he said the pilot had told rescue authorities that he had heard a "large noise" while trying to take off. | |
| The five people aboard were taken to hospital but none were injured, airport spokeswoman Tru Lefevere told AFP news agency. | |
| Ms Lefevere said air traffic had not been disrupted. | Ms Lefevere said air traffic had not been disrupted. |