Via RFERL:
BISHKEK — Search teams in Kyrgyzstan were continuing to look for three crew members of a U.S. KC-135 Stratotanker that crashed near the border with Kazakhstan.
Kyrgyz Emergency Situations Minister Kubatbek Boronov said on May 3 that the black box from the plane had been found, but there was no sign of any of the crew.
“The plane broke into five or six pieces. One of the engines was found and some 400 to 500 meters away another engine was found. The main body of the plane was split into two parts,” Boronov told reporters.
“We are now searching for the people [crewmembers]. There are three of them, but we have not found them yet. If they were still aboard the plane, they may been burned to nothing because even the metal [of the plane] burned.”
Akjibek Beishebaeva, a spokeswoman for the U.S. transit center at the Manas airport near Bishkek, told RFE/RL: “A rapid-reaction team is at the scene of the incident. The status of the crew is unknown. The plane’s crew is from the transit center outside Bishkek. The cause of the crash is under investigation.”
The plane went down minutes after departing the Manas airfield on route to Afghanistan.
Witnesses in the area of the village of Chaldovar where the plane went down said the aircraft appeared to explode in midair.
There were no casualties reported among local residents.
The U.S. military has been using the Manas airfield since December 2001 to support operations in Afghanistan.
This was the third crash of a U.S. military plane in Afghanistan in less than a week:
This was the third crash involving U.S. planes supporting operations in Afghanistan in less than a week.
Seven people were killed when a Boeing 747 civilian cargo plane crashed Monday at Bagram Air Base north of Kabul. Two days earlier, four airmen were killed in the crash of an MC-12 aircraft near Kandahar Airfield in southern Afghanistan.
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This is nuts and this is very fishy. This time, it appeared to witnesses to explode in the air? This adm. ???? Well, I won't say it right now but I think you all get the message. I'm sickened by the anti-Christian hating racists in this adm. They are contaminating our military now - they want to make sure there is no 'extremism' so what do they do? They go and counsel with the biggest HATER in the nation - Mikey Weinstein. Nuff said. We all know what's going on. God bless all these soldiers who have perished and their families.
Can we now send Obama over there and bring back all our troops and LEAVE OBAMA THERE???
WHY IN HAVENS DO WE HAVE RUSSIA IN THIS.
Something is not right about this- losing good military men...to be replaced with ??? Soldiers willing to fire on Americans?
(See interview with Jim Garrow, Canadian who said some military people were telling him that Obama was only letting officers stay if they were willing to fire on Americans)
Not a coincidental. An honest investigation would find out the crashes were sabotage by desert rats. Time to wipe them out.
CHECK OUT AND SEE WHO WATCHES OVER, FILLS THEM UP ETC........SOMETHING IS GOING ON, WATCH YOUR BACKS AT ALL TIMES.