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| US tanker plane 'crashes in Kyrgyzstan after take off' | US tanker plane 'crashes in Kyrgyzstan after take off' |
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| A US military cargo plane has crashed after taking off from an airbase in Kyrgyzstan, local reports say. | |
| The aircraft came down near the village of Chaldovar, about 160km (100 miles) west of the US Transit Center at Manas, the Kyrgyz emergencies ministry said. | |
| Officials said the plane had broken into three pieces but information about casualties has yet to be released. | |
| Seven crew members died when a US civilian cargo plane crashed at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan on Monday. | Seven crew members died when a US civilian cargo plane crashed at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan on Monday. |
| Witnesses of the Kyrgyzstan crash told local media that they had seen an explosion and heard a boom. | |
| The US military uses the Manas airbase to maintain its operations in Afghanistan. | The US military uses the Manas airbase to maintain its operations in Afghanistan. |
| The transport plane was carrying a cargo of fuel when it disappeared off the radar near Chaldovar, close to the border with Kazakhstan, the Reuters news agency reported. | |
| Rescue services went to the scene, a spokesman for the emergency situations ministry said. | |
| However, local media reported that fire engines were struggling to reach the wreckage due to the mountainous terrain. |