KHARTOUM, Sudan, July 8 (UPI) -- A passenger plane crashed and burned in Sudan shortly after take-off, killing 115 people Tuesday.
Only one passenger, a 2-year-old child, survived, the BBC reported.
The Sudan Airways Boeing 737 was on an internal flight from Port Sudan on the Red Sea to the capital, Khartoum, about 410 miles away.
The plane's captain reported technical problems with the aircraft shortly before it crashed in a desolate area about three miles from Port Sudan airport, Sudanese radio said.
Government spokesman Salah Ali Ahmed told Sudanese national television the surviving child was in a hospital and in good condition, although one report said the child, a boy, had lost a leg.
"The plane took off this morning. Minutes later the pilot contacted (air traffic contollers) to say there were difficulties and that he would return to the airport in Port Sudan," Sudan's minister of state for aviation, Mohammed Hassan al-Bahi, told the station.
