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LUANDA, Angola (AP) - An Angolan Airlines plane crashed on landing at an airport in northern Angola on Thursday, killing five people on the same day the European Union said it was blacklisting the airline due to safety concerns.
The Boeing 737 plane crashed and broke in half when it landed at an airport in M'banza Congo, a town about 180 miles north of the capital, Luanda, national airports chief Celso Rosas said.
The airline, known by its Portuguese acronym TAAG, said in a statement that 79 passengers had been on board when the accident occurred at 1:40 p.m.
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