Posted on 01/19/2006 12:59:45 PM PST by joan
Released : Jan 19, 2006 3:46 PM
BUDAPEST, Hungary-A Slovak military plane crashed near the Slovak-Hungarian border Thursday with around 48 people on board, a Hungarian Defense Ministry official said.
There was no immediate word of causalities.
Hungarian Defense Ministry spokesman Istvan Bocskai said on Info Radio that about 48 people were on board the plane, which was flying from Kosovo to Slovakia and crashed close to the Slovak-Hungarian border.
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This is very sad news. I guess we can only pray that some of the soldiers would have survived.
Somehow, I find it hard to believe that Slovaks would turn their backs as an Islamofascist mob tried to desecrate a Christian Church.
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - A Slovak AN-24 military aircraft, bound from Kosovo to Slovakia, crashed in eastern Hungary on Thursday, a Hungarian government spokesman said.
"This aircraft was an AN-24 military aircraft flying from Pristina to Kosice in Slovakia and it crashed in Telkibanya, near the Slovak border around 2030 (1930 GMT)," Miklos Merenyi, a spokesman for Hungary's Economy Ministry, which controls air traffic, told Reuters.
Telkibanya is 250 km (150 miles) from the Hungarian capital Budapest
"According to unconfirmed information, 48 people were on board," Merenyi added.
The Hungarian Disaster Management Agency said that there was as yet no word on the number of casualties but the aircraft had caught fire.
"What we know is there were more than 40 people on board, that the aircraft crashed in an uninhabited area," said agency spokesman Tibor Dobson.
"There are firefighters and ambulance crews on the scene, they are trying to put out the fire," he added.
The Slovak authorities declined to comment until they had more information.
Hungarian state news agency MTI said the area in which the aircraft crashed was highly forested, making rescue operations difficult.
44 persons died. RIP to the fallen.
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