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Old 5th May 2013, 19:24
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More from Associated Press: BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan: Bodies of 2 US crew found at Kyrgyzstan crash site - World Wires - MiamiHerald.com

...........The KC-135 plane crashed Friday afternoon about 100 miles (160 kilometers) west of the air base that the U.S. operates in Kyrgyzstan to support military operations in Afghanistan..................

................Residents of the rural, sheep-herding region described hearing the plane explode in the air and seeing it break apart as it fell.
"I heard a very loud explosion," Emil Bokochev, a member of the village council, told an AP reporter at the site. "Literally six or seven seconds afterward there was another explosion and the plane broke apart into four or five pieces and at that moment we thought it was going to fall on the village Chaldovar."....................
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