7 Survive Crash That Killed 55

A Boeing 737-200 jet that crashed and burst into flames killed 51 people on board and four on the ground in Patna, eastern India. The Alliance Air plane smashed into two homes less than a mile from its destination, officials said. Seven of the 58 people on the plane survived. “Miracles do take place in this world. I thank God for it,” said Bharat Rungta, a passenger who told Press Trust of India that he was jolted out of sleep when the aircraft went down. “I managed to jump out of the plane,” he said from his hospital bed. The cause of the crash was still under investigation.