( CNN ) -- Fourteen passengers are still missing after a plane burst into flames after landing in Sudan 's capital Khartoum on Tuesday , killing 29 people . Officials say 29 are dead after a plane caught fire shortly after landing in Sudan . The Sudan Civil Aviation Authority said Wednesday the remaining 171 passengers on the Sudan Airways Airbus survived . Many passengers did not wait around for customs inspection after fleeing the burning plane , making the toll difficult to ascertain initially , officials said . Khartoum Police Chief Mohammad Othman Mohammad Noor said that `` a defect '' in the Sudan Airways plane caused it to catch fire as it touched down during a storm . `` The fire then led to an explosion on the airplane , '' he said . `` There was a large number of passengers on the plane , some of whom survived . The number of casualties is still unconfirmed at this time . '' iReport.com : Send your photos , videos . Lighting up the night sky , flames consumed the plane as it sat on the runway at the airport , which is in the center of Khartoum near residential and business areas . Watch as flames engulf the wreckage » . The weather in Khartoum as the plane attempted to land was terrible . Low visibility and heavy rain and wind followed a big sandstorm earlier in the day . The last airline disaster involving a Sudan Airways plane was July 8 , 2003 , when a Boeing 737 reported engine trouble after take-off from Port Sudan and missed its return approach to the airport . It crashed about three miles away . A 3-year-old boy was the only survivor of the 117 people aboard . It was Sudan 's worst air disaster .
14 passengers still missing , 29 dead in Sudanese air crash , officials say . Remaining 171 passengers on the Sudan Airways Airbus survived . Police chief says `` defect '' caused plane to catch fire as it landed in a storm . Khartoum accident occurred as plane touched down in low visibility , heavy rain .