(12 Oct 2010)
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Wide of police blocking the road to the crush site
2. Close of plane burning in distance
3. Wide of traffic police vehicle passing
4. Close of Afghan police officer
5. Mid of Afghan National Army soldiers
6. Close of gun
7. Mid pan shot from eyewitness Ghulam Akbar pointing the site of crash
8. Close of plane burning in distance
9. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) Ghulam Akbar, eyewitness,
"It was 8 p.m. that possibly a passenger plane or other type of plane flying very low passed over our area and the accident happened and it crashed into the mountain."
10. Mid of military ambulance driving to the site
11. Various of Afghan National Army vehicle driving to the site of crush
STORYLINE:
A cargo plane contracted by a U.S.-based company crashed into mountains east of Afghanistan's capital Kabul, with initial reports saying all eight people aboard were killed, an Afghan airport official said.
The plane was flying from Bagram Air Field, the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan, when it went down east of the capital Tuesday at about 8 p.m.
(1530 GMT), Kabul Airport Director Mohammad Yaqub Rassuli said.
An Associated Press photographer near the scene saw wreckage ablaze on a hillside.
The cause of the crash wasn't immediately known. Weather conditions were clear Tuesday evening.
Rassuli said all eight crew members were believed dead, although NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) and Afghan troops were continuing with their search-and-rescue mission.
The aircraft took off from Bagram, which lies about 30 miles (50 kilometres) north of Kabul, but its destination was unclear.
The plane owned by United Arab Emirates-based TransAfrik was under contract by the U.S.-based company National Air Cargo, Judge said.
NATO said in a statement that the crash occurred about 16 miles (30 kilometres) east of the Kabul International Airport.
In May, a passenger plane operated by Pamir Airways, a private Afghan airline, crashed while travelling from Kunduz in northern Afghanistan to the
capital.
All 44 passengers on the plane died.
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