Passenger jet crashes in Kyrgyzstan

[ATrude777]

MOSCOW, Russia (AP) -- Russian news agencies report that a Boeing passenger jet has crashed while taking off in Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek.

A U.S. official says 83 people were aboard the plane.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/24/jet.crash.ap/index.html

Not Good to see or hear at all! Aircraft was a Boeing 737-200.


Alex

[Alessandro]

www.aviation-safety.net claim 123 onboard, airline seem to be banned from EU.

[AA 1818]

Unconfirmed reports stated that there were 17 members of a High School Basketball travelling on the aircraft, of which 7 are confimed to have survived the inital crash (and are at a local hospital awaiting surgeries) while the other 10 perished in the crash. I just thought that that fact was interesting.

Anyway, my condolensces to the families of those that perished, and to the passengers that survived. I hope that all are able to heal, and that we can come to a speedy conclusion as to what occurred at this incident so that we can prevent another such occurrence from happening.

[Cargo Runner]

Latest reports say - Sixty-five people have died in a crash of a passenger plane in the Kyrgyzstan capital of Bishkek.

The Boeing 737-200, chartered by an Iranian company and bound for Tehran, crashed soon after take-off, a spokeswoman for Manas airport said.

'It took off and reported a technical problem and tried to return to the airport,' the spokeswoman said.

[JordanD]

Damn, this is not a good week for aviation.
My thoughts are with everyone affected by all of the recent crashes.

[Dohc]

www.aviation-safety.net claim 123 onboard, airline seem to be banned from EU.

Really. Just, exactly as you told:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...European_Union

RIP to all the victims.
Regards

[Crunk415balla]

Very sad to hear of yet another crash. I hope the survivors make it.

[juan23]

Very sad to hear of yet another crash. I hope the survivors make it.

They all ready have, that's why they are called
SURVIVORS

[juan23]

Very sad to hear of yet another crash. I hope the survivors make it.

They all ready have, that's why they are called
SURVIVORS[

[JordanD]

They all ready have, that's why they are called
SURVIVORS

You know sometimes people succumb to their injuries days later in the hospital even though they survived the initial crash....

[bob12312357]

Thats a pretty good ditching on the pilots part for anyone to survive a belly landing in a field with a passenger jet.