Plane Catches Fire.....

Lufthansa said that one of its MD-11 planes crashed and the pilot and co-pilot, aged 39 and 29, had to leave the plane by emergency chutes.  Flight LH 8460 came from Frankfurt and was initially scheduled to leave Riyadh later for Sharjah in the nearby United Arab Emirates and then Hong Kong.  The flight was carrying about 90 tons of unspecified cargo.