U.S. military plane disappears from radar on Kyrgyz-Kazakh border

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Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - A U.S. military transport plane carrying fuel disappeared from radar screens near the border between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan on Friday, Kyrgyzstan's Emergencies Ministry said, citing information from a U.S. military base.

&quot The plane) disappeared from the radar screen. It is a military fuel transporter C-135," said a ministry source.

The plane disappeared near the Kyrgyz village of Chaldovar, 90 km (55 miles) from the U.S. airforce base at Manas in Kyrgyzstan, which U.S. forces maintain for operations in Afghanistan.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/03/us-kyrgyzstan-usa-plane-idUSBRE9420EH20130503

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1. Kyrgyzstan's emergencies ministry says U.S. military plane crashes in the country

BREAKING: Kyrgyzstan's emergencies ministry says U.S. military plane crashes in the country

https://twitter.com/AP/status/330267509842399232

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2. US tanker plane 'crashes in Kyrgyzstan after take off'

A US cargo plane has crashed after taking off from an airbase in Kyrgyzstan, local reports say.

The tanker aircraft had left the US Manas airbase near the capital Bishkek, officials told AFP.

The emergency situations ministry 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.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22397266

I know random events often cluster VS hmmmm instinct

[James48]

3. No parachutes seen

burning debris spread over 1 kilometer area.


http://en.ria.ru/world/20130503/180963947/US-Refueling-Plane-Crashes-in-Kyrgyzstan.html

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4. Their naming is slightly off. The KC-135 is the air-to-air tanker that was built from the

Boeing 707 airframe. First flight was in 1956 with introduction into the fleet in 1957, it was the Air Force's first jet tanker. 803 were built and, as of September 2010, 417 were in service.

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5. KC-135 tanker is based on the "-80" prototype

The B707 fuselage is wider and longer, in all its variants, than the KC-135. The forward section of the KC-135 with the distinctive Boeing 707 cockpit windows is why people almost always mistake the KC-135 and B707 as the same aircraft. It is not. The 707 family's multiple wing designs alone make it difficult to identify which model 707 one is looking at.

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6. Lightning?

A Kyrgyz civil aviation official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said storm clouds over the region could have caused the explosion, Interfax reported

http://news.yahoo.com/u-military-plane-disappears-radar-kyrgyz-kazakh-border-102355010.html

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7. Bodies of two US pilots found after Kyrgyzstan crash

The Kyrgyz government says it has found the bodies of two US pilots after a military refuelling plane crashed in the Central Asian state on Friday.

Search teams found the remains on Saturday morning, the emergencies ministry told news agencies.

The search for the third member of the plane's crew was continuing.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22409924