Turkish cargo jet crash kills at least 30 in Kyrgyzstan
A TURKISH Airlines cargo jet has crashed near Kyrgyzstan’s Manas airport, killing at least 32 people, including six children.
The plane was attempting to land in thick fog when it crashed at 7.30am local time.
Four pilots are among the dead along with a number of local people when the Boeing 747 jet crashed into their houses the healthcare ministry said.
The doomed plane damaged 15 buildings in the village, said Mukhammed Svarov, head of crisis management centre at the emergencies ministry
The Turkish Airlines flight was en route to Istanbul from Hong Kong via Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek.
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The Express UK reported that Kyrgyzstan’s Emergencies Ministry said the plane crashed in a dacha community — basic housing often located just outside major former-Soviet cities.
A video from the crash site shows local authorities searching through the wreckage.
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BISHKEK, Jan 16 (Reuters) - A Turkish cargo jet crashed near Kyrgyzstan's Manas airport on Monday, killing at least 30 people, most of them residents of a village struck by the Boeing 747 as it tried to land in dense fog, Kyrgyz officials said.
According to the airport administration, the plane was supposed to make a stopover at Manas, near the capital city Bishkek, on its way from Hong Kong to Istanbul. It crashed when trying to land in poor visibility at 7:31 a.m. (0131 GMT).
The doomed plane damaged 15 buildings in the village, said Mukhammed Svarov, head of crisis management centre at the emergencies ministry, adding that at least 30 people had been killed.
Kyrgyzstan's transport ministry said there were five people on board. It identified the plane as a Turkish Airlines Boeing 747-400, but the company said it belonged to another Turkish firm, ACT Airlines.
"Our condolences to the families of those who have lost their lives in the tragic incident involving an ACT Airlines aircraft in Kyrgyzstan," Turkish Airlines said on its Twitter account. (Reporting by Olga Dzyubenko; Additional reporting by Daren Butler in Istanbul and Venus Wu in Hong Kong; Writing by Olzhas Auyezov; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore and Randy Fabi)
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