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US Military Plane Crashes in Kyrgyzstan
SPA Published in Alriyadh on 03 - 05 - 2013

A US military refueling plane has crashed in Kyrgyzstan, local officials said Friday according to dpa. The KC-135 tanker crashed minutes after taking off from the Manas US airbase outside the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek, the Itar-Tass news agency reported.
Emergency teams were rushing to the scene near the village of Chaldybar, close to the border with Kazakhstan, the report said, quoting the Kyrgyz health ministry.
A local witness saw the plane explode in mid-air, the national news agency AKI press reported, quoting the Kyrgyz Interior Ministry. It was not immediately clear how many people were on board the plane.

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