Sudanese television is reporting that a Sudan Airways jetlinerbelieved to have been carrying about 200 people, veered off a runway late Tuesday amid thunderstorms and burst into flames, killing about 100 people.

An Associated Press reporter at the scene said the plane arriving from Amman, Jordan left the runway as it landed in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan.

The head of Sudanese police, Mohammad Najib, cited that bad weather "caused the plane to crash land, split into two and catch fire."

While stressing that officials could not say for sure how many were killed, he stated that some pessangers were able to escape from the inferno. "We believe that most of the passengers were able to make it out and escape with their lives," said Najib, without disclosing further details on how they escaped.

If the number of death is confirmed this would the crash the deadliest since July 2007, when a Tam Linhas Aereas SA jetliner Airbus 320 skidded off runway while landing in Sao Paulo, Brazil, killing all 187 people on board and 12 on the ground.

A clip of the crash site from Al-Jezeera is shown below: