BISHKEK (Reuters) - A U.S. military refueling plane caught fire in mid air and crashed near the border between Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan on Friday, Kyrgyzstan's Emergencies Ministry said.
The aircraft took off from the U.S. military transit center at Kyrgyzstan's Manas airport, which U.S. forces maintain for operations in Afghanistan, the Interfax news agency reported.
The plane, used for inflight refueling, disappeared from radar screens at 3.10 p.m. (0910 GMT), as it flew near the Kyrgyz village of Chaldovar, the ministry said.
"(The plane) caught fire in the air and crashed," said an official responsible for the southern Kyrgyz province of Chuisk, where Chaldovar is located.
Officials did not say how many people were on board and staff at the U.S. transit center declined to comment.
The Manas base is used to transport U.S. personnel in and out of Afghanistan and has been used by other international forces fighting in the country.
(Reporting Olga Dzyubenko; Writing by Thomas Grove; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-military-plane-disappears-radar-kyrgyz-kazakh-border-102355010.html
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