L-100 Crash at Kabul

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11527727

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/10/ ... index.html

NOS mentions a L-100 as aircraft involved.

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Story is developing at
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/4304 ... -10-a.html .

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The latest:
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/ca ... 5937928179

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A C-130 cargo plane operated by National Air Cargo was on its way from Bagram to Kabul," Mohammad Yaqoob Rasouli, the director of Kabul International Airport, said.

"It disappeared from radar screens at 19.25 (1.55am AEDT) six miles on the radar screen northeast of Kabul airport," Mr Rasouli said.

"The tower saw a fire in the same location and we also got telephone confirmation from the area of a crash," he said.

"The plane had eight crew members: six Filipinos, one Indian and one Kenyan. Search operations have already begun."

A spokesman for Afghanistan's ministry of transport and civil aviation said that all crew on board perished.

"They are all dead," said the spokesman, Nangyalai Qalatwal.

A police official in the area said a fire was still burning at the crash site nearly two hours after the plane came down.

US-headquartered National Air Cargo said that the crashed aircraft belonged to Trans Afrique, a company based in Ghana.

"We're a customer of theirs and I believe they were on a flight on our behalf," National Air Cargo CEO Preston Murray said by telephone.

"The crash occurred shortly before 8 pm approximately 25 to 30 kilometres east of Kabul International Airport," ISAF said.

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http://avherald.com/h?article=4321af59&opt=0 shows the scene of the crash...

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