Wednesday, October 27, 2010

All Aircraft Pull Up in Afghanistan

They didn't make it:

"8 feared dead in Afghanistan plane crash" by Associated Press  |  October 13, 2010

KABUL, Afghanistan — A civilian cargo plane trying to land at Kabul’s international airport crashed into the mountains last night, and Afghan and NATO officials said they feared there were no survivors among the eight people aboard.

NATO helicopters and members of the Afghan National Security Forces were searching for the wreckage, according to a NATO statement. The cause of the crash was unclear.

The plane was a civilian version of the C-130 transport aircraft the military uses for cargo, the NATO statement said.

General Zahir Azimi, the Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman, said the plane went down near Pul-i-Charkhi, east of Kabul. The city lies in the middle of a circle of mountains, and when planes reduce altitude as they are coming in for a landing, they run the risk of crashing into the peaks. The mountainous area east of Kabul was where a Kam Air plane crashed in February 2005, killing 104.

The plane in yesterday’s crash was operated by Transafrik, a cargo carrier flying on behalf of National Air Cargo in Orchard Park, N.Y., and it was delivering a load of general repair parts, National Air Cargo said in a statement....

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Five charred bodies were recovered yesterday from the wreckage of a cargo plane carrying NATO supplies that slammed into a mountaintop east of Afghanistan’s capital with eight people aboard....

The plane went down east of Kabul shortly after taking off Tuesday evening from Bagram Air Field, the main US military base in Afghanistan. The cause of the crash was not immediately known. Weather conditions were clear at the time.  

Hmmmmm.

Mohammad Yaqub Rassuli, Kabul Airport director, said the aircraft was carrying supplies for NATO forces. Six Filipinos, one Indian, and one Kenyan were aboard the flight. Rassuli said all eight were believed dead.

Hundreds of Afghan security forces in fatigues carrying M-16 rifles gathered at the bottom of the mountain yesterday. Smoke could be seen rising from the scattered wreckage....   

But the plane disintegrates in an empty field in Shanksville on 9/11?

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And DOWN the MEMORY HOLE we go!

So which CIA CONTRACT did they have?

Related: Afghanistan Airplane Crash

Also see:  Afghan Exodus

Checking Out at the Afghan Airport 

All clear for take-off.