Khartoum, Sudan ? A Sudanese airliner plunged into a hillside while attempting an emergency landing Tuesday, killing 116 people and leaving one survivor — a 3-year-old boy found injured but alive amid a scene of charred corpses.

The Sudan Airways plane, headed from Port Sudan on the northeastern coast to the capital, crashed before dawn in a wooded area just after takeoff. The Boeing 737 wreckage was badly burned, and authorities decided to rapidly bury all bodies, including eight foreigners.

“The bodies were buried in a mass grave after performing the Muslim prayer because the conditions of the bodies would not allow transporting and delivering them to the relatives,” the Red Sea State governor, Hatem el-Wassila, told the official Sudan News Agency.

The governor said the sole survivor, 3-year-old Mohammed el-Fateh Osman, had lost his right leg and suffered burns. The boy was in intensive care at the Port Sudan hospital, and doctors said he was in stable condition.

Eleven crew members and 105 passengers died, including three people from India and one each from Britain, China, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates. There was also a woman whose nationality was unknown, state radio said.

A team of experts flew to the scene to investigate the crash and recovered the black box flight recorder. Initial reports cited a technical problem.

Boeing has provided technical information about the jet to investigators, but company officials have not been asked to visit the crash site.

The lone survivor of a Sudanese airliner that crashed while attempting an emergency landing is seen in this image from video. The crash Tuesday killed 116 people. The toddler, 3, suffered burns and lost his right leg.