From the Globe &=20 Mail=20 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20041014.wdown1014/BNStor= y/National/ Halifax =97 A large cargo jet with seven crew members aboard crashed off the= =20 end of a runway at Halifax International airport Thursday. The fate of the= =20 crew was not known. The MK Airlines jet - a Boeing 747 - was apparently loaded with tractors=20 and seafood. The plane went down as it was taking off and ended up in a=20 rock quarry, said airport and RCMP officials. =93RCMP and emergency firefighters are on site,=94 said airport spokesman= Pat=20 Chapman. =93The airport is closed.=94 Some witnesses reported seeing a fireball but that could not be confirmed. Cab drivers taking passengers to the airport reported that they had been=20 turned back, saying all they had been told was that there was some sort of= =20 incident. =93All the information that we can get is the airport is closed for the= day,=94=20 said cab company owner Angus McGillivary. =93We got a cargo plane down= that's=20 taken down the power at the airport.=94 He said his drivers could not see anything except for a darkened airport.