An Azerbaijani cargo plane with 9 crew members on board crashed into mountainous Parwan province of Afghanistan on Tuesday night. All the crew members of this Silk Way airline plain are feared killed in the accident. The Afghan Airspace Control Service reported that connection with the cargo plane was lost at 11:10 IST last night when the plane disappeared from radar. Local News channels quoting official sources said the plane hit a mountain peak 50 KMs north of the capital, Kabul. After the crash cargo plane broke into pieces and caught fire. The transport plane left Azerbaijan capital Baku with 18 tons of cargo and was going to Bagram airbase in Afghanistan.
News On AIR | July 6, 2011 7:23 PM
Azerbaijani cargo plane with 9 crew crashes in Afghanistan