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Plane Crash Ends Moslem Pilgrimage; 200 Feared Dead

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COLOMBO. Sri Lanka--A chartered jetliner carrying 246 Moslem pilgrims home from Mecca crashed, split apart and burned yesterday a mile from Colombo's airport while being guided down in a severe thunderstorm.

A spokesman for Icelandic Airlines in New York said all but 47 of those abroad were killed. The Federal Aviation Administration in Washington put the number of survivors at from 17 to 100.

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