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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Kazakhstan plane carrying 27 crashes
2012-12-26
A military aircraft carrying 27 people including top members of the Kazakhstan border guard service crashed Tuesday in the south of the country with many fatalities feared, officials said. The KNB security service said the An-72 military transport aircraft was carrying seven crew and 20 servicemen, including the acting head of the Kazakh border service Turganbek Stambekov.
It's non-WoT, but in that area of the world you can never quite rule out the possibility that Putin has been cleaning up some sort of mess...
The plane crashed 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Shymkent airport where it had been due to land after a flight from the capital Astana.

"The emergency services are working at the scene of the incident. An investigation is in progress," the KNB said, without giving more details.

The security source quoted by Interfax said that according to initial information there were no survivors.
Posted by:Steve White

#1  It's non-WoT, but in that area of the world you can never quite rule out the possibility that Putin has been cleaning up some sort of mess...

Yup, I've heard stories of loading the plane with deaders and crashing it, no real loss of life, they were dead on Takeoff.

So Maybe?
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2012-12-26 00:59  

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