Posted on 05/03/2013 4:16:35 AM PDT by cunning_fish
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.
Witnesses of the Kyrgyzstan crash told local media that they heard a boom and saw an explosion.
The transport plane was carrying a cargo of fuel when it disappeared off the radar near the mountain village of Chaldybar, close to the border with Kazakhstan, Reuters reported.
The US military uses the Manas airbase to maintain its operations in Afghanistan.
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I actually DO know that!!! haha!!!
The whole area should be called “Asscrackistan”.
Interesting, thanks.
Uncle Ruslan’s family were/are neighbors to big Mafioso...
http://www.rferl.org/content/tsarnaev-childhood-family-kyrgyzstan-chechnya-daghestan/24963691.html
Northrop Grumman/EADS had the contract won and was ready to build new tankers several years ago replacing the ancient tankers we have now.
Then along came the Boeing propaganda, and now the blood of US servicemen.
Do you think Tsarnaevs and crash are somehow related?
The CG shift might have been that severe but I understand what you are saying.
If the load did not shift then what could have been another reason for going nose high and into a stall?
Have any details or links on that crash?
ROFLMAO!
Correcting myself:
“might not have been that severe...”
Years later I took a F-250 Ford with 460 engine and adapted it with water injection. They once made a kit that measured vaccum and RPM and when the engine was under load like pulling a fifth-wheeler it shot a stream of water into the carburator. Black smoke just poured out the back. Got a big incease in power and MPG.
This is hostile country where there could be Moslem extremists operating in.
Sending in a company of Marines to this air base to beef up security might not be a bad idea. And have them check ID's -- no exceptions.
We have the technology to have everyone on a military base be given an ID card, and instantly swipe it on a portable computer and immediately show a picture of the person.
In the past two weeks, we lost a transport plane in Afghanistan, so the O-bozo Admin (O-bozo = Obama) is probably asleep on the job just as it was last September when two Marines were killed and many other wounded in a sneak attack in Afghanistan.
But if it was Moslem extremists involved, there is a possibility that the wreckage was tampered with.
There is an update from FoxNews that they have recovered the bodies of two of the three personnel on board.
Link is found in Reply #92 (should be above this reply)
Michell Malkin: The Camp Bastion Cover-Up [Attack September 14, 2012]
Because it's all three. I know, I used to be a crew chief on 135's. There were missions were we ran cargo to another base, carried passengers in seats lugged into the floor forward of the cargo and refueled a couple of fighters on the way. I've carried 80 pax and carried a load of cargo pallets stacked stem to stern.
That said, it's still sloppy writing. They should have either left it at refueller or just mentioned that it can carry cargo and pax but wasn't in this case.
Saw a photo of this bird’s tail laying on the ground. She was a 63 model, specifically 63-8877. Based out of McConnell but possibly crewed by folks from Fairchild.
In 1992 I was in the last wing to convert A to R.
I was in KC-135’s when I was in, and we didn’t have many accidents, but we had them. We even had incidents where they just exploded in mid-air due to fuel transfer pump problems.
Capt. Victoria “Tori” A. Pinckney, 27, Palmdale, California
Capt. Mark T. Voss, 27, of Boerne, Texas
Tech Sgt. Herman Mackey III, 30, of Bakersfield, California
dun dah duuunnnnnn!!!
The Obama sequester strikes again...
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