{"id":26848,"date":"2013-02-09T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/five-killed-belgium-plane-crash-104401268.html"},"modified":"2013-02-09T14:00:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T13:00:10","slug":"belgium-plane-crash-kills-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/belgium-plane-crash-kills-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium Plane Crash Kills Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"first\">A small passenger plane has crashed at Belgium&#8217;s Charleroi airport, killing five people and closing the international hub used by low-cost carriers.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft, a Cessna, had problems on takeoff and tried to return to Charleroi to make an emergency landing but crashed on the side of the runway, airport officials said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was a problem on takeoff and they tried to come back, but unfortunately the plane crashed,&#8221; said Melissa Milioto, an airport spokeswoman.<\/p>\n<p>Two adults and three children, reportedly all from the same family, were killed.<\/p>\n<p>According to the news website sudinfo.be, the victims were a 68-year-old grandfather, a 39-year-old mother, and three children aged 7, 6 and 3. They are thought to be from Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>There were no immediate indications of what caused the crash, which happened at 10am local time (9am GMT).<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters sprayed water on the plane that was reduced to a wreck of twisted metal, with only the tail still visible.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the airport, which is a hub for Ryanair and other low-cost carriers, would be closed until mid-afternoon. Several flights were cancelled and others delayed or diverted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our priority is dealing with this drama. Flights are being diverted to Liege and Brussels,&#8221; Ms Milioto said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash came at the start of the Belgium school half-term holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Charleroi airport, also known as Brussels South Charleroi, serves as the country&#8217;s second international airport after Brussels&#8217; main Zaventem airport and expects to handle 140,000 passengers over the half-term holiday period.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small passenger plane has crashed at Belgium&#8217;s Charleroi airport, killing five people and closing the international hub used by low-cost carriers.<br \/>\nThe aircraft, a Cessna, had problems on takeoff and tried to return to Charleroi to make an emergency &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}