LAGOS, Dec. 11 (Xinhuanet) -- A plane with 103 passengers and seven crew members on board crashed in the southern Nigerian oil city of Port Harcourt on Saturday, killing 103 people, officials said.

    "A total of 110 people are on board, only seven survived, the rest are killed," Sam Adurogboye, spokesman for the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority told Xinhua. The cause of the crash is not immediately available.

    Ben Goong, spokesman for the Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), told reporters earlier that the Sosoliso Airlines flight from Abuja, Nigeria's capital, crashed at about 2 p.m. (1300 GMT) on a final touch down to the runway and burst into flames immediately.

    Aviation Minister Babalola Borishade, said Goong, had cut short his official engagement in Canada, where he is discussing safety oversight functions with officials of International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and International Aviation Transport Authority (IATA).

    Currently, Emperor Onasanya, head of the NAMA, has taken charge of rescue operations at the site of the plane crash, the official News Agency of Nigeria reported.

    "The rescue team included firefighters, NAMA search and rescue operations personnel and other people within the environment," it said.

    Nigeria has a poor record for aviation safety because most of its airliners are second ones having used for more than 20 years or even over 30 years.

    In October, a Boeing 737-200 operated by Nigeria's Bellview Airlines crashed on the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, killing 117 people on board. But the black boxes are still missing and there are no official words about what brought the plane down. Enditem