Plane Crash In Manas Kyrgyzstan - CFIT
 

Sky news reporting passenger jet down in BISHKEK Kyrgystan.
No more at this time.
Reports of casualties.

• 3 Boeing 737-200 (one aircraft is operated by Kyrgyzstan Airlines, one aircraft is operated for Antrak Air and one aircraft is operated for Pamir Airways)

As of May 2008, the average age of the Itek Air fleet is 29.9 years ([1]).


Was only time before it happend :(
RIP

If your right
 

The EU has again banned Kyrgyz airlines from landing in EU countries due to their poor safety standards. Some observers believe corruption is rampant within the airlines’ administrations and does not allow companies to develop and meet international maintenance and safety standards. Heads of the companies, however, disagree, saying many were not inspected by the EU prior to being blacklisted.
http://news.ferghana.ru/photos/2008_07/itek1.jpg

CNN reports
 

Jet crashes in Kyrgyzstan - CNN.com

I'm not sure whether the words are your opinion or a quote from somewhere. However, I believe that the approach taken by the EU when compiling the so called blacklist is to look at the national aviation authority arrangements (at least in the first instance). If the CAA or whatever is not doing - or able to do - oversight against EU and international standards then there is no way of knowing whether individual operators are sound. Even if a quick check 'on the day' by EU inspectors were to show that everything is OK, without ongoing oversight at national level there is no guarantee that it will continue to be OK.

Sadly none of this changes anything for those on board.

BBC reporting it as an emergency landing, after take off.

According to russian news agencies (Interfax, RIA Novosti):

- 123 people on board (according to ministry of public safety)
- flight was to Mashhad, Iran
- an airport official reported, that airplane "fell suddenly after lift-off down", near a village ("Dshangi Dsher"), about 2 kilometers from airport, "упал сразу после взлета в районе села Джанги-Джер"

from Reuters
 

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A passenger plane crashed at the airport of Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek with around 100 people on board, Russian news agencies reported on Sunday.

RIA news agency quoted the press service of the U.S. airbase located at the Bishkek airport Manas as saying the plane crashed on take-off.
"At the moment rescue teams, fire brigades and medics are rushing to the crash site," an airbase spokeswoman told RIA.

Interfax news agency quoted an airport source as saying the Boeing-737 belonged to a private Kyrgyz company Itek-Air and was bound for Iran.
The source said that according to preliminary information 100 people were on board.

All carriers in Kyrgyzstan are subject to a blanket ban on operations to the European Union.

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CNN again
 

Passenger jet crashes in Kyrgyzstan, news agencies report


MOSCOW, Russia (AP) -- A Boeing passenger jet crashed Sunday while taking off from the airport in Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek, Russian news agencies reported.


However, an official at the airport characterized the accident as an emergency landing. The official, who said she had no information about casualties, spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to give her name to the media.


The Interfax news agency quoted an unidentified airport official as saying the plane went down near the airport and that there were casualties. Interfax said the plane was a Boeing-737 with more than 100 people aboard.

The RIA-Novosti news agency quoted an unidentified spokesman at a U.S. air base at Bishkek's Manas airport as saying a passenger plane crashed near a village close to the airport shortly after takeoff. Officials at the U.S. base could not immediately be reached for comment.

Interfax said the plane belonged to a company called Itak-Air and was headed to Mashhad in northeastern Iran.

Taken from the bbc website:

BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | 'Plane crashes in Kyrgyz capital'

Russian news agencies now report it was a flight to Tehran, probably IRC6895 which departed on schedule at 20:30 local time. That would be Iran Aseman Airlines (Iran).

737 Down!
 

Not to much info yet apparently 25 survivors I think it was a 200, a bad week for the Airline industry.:confused:

Source – Russian and Kyrgyz blogs and aviation forums
 

An airport official said the crash occurred after the crew reported a technical problem on board about 10 minutes into the flight to Tehran, Iran, and said they were returning to the airport. The official spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to give her name. Kyrgyz Interior Minister Maldomusa Kongatiyev told the AP there were seven crew members on board in addition to the 83 passengers. He said the plane went down 6 miles from the airport.
Interfax quoted Kyrgyz Emergency Situations Minister Kamchibek Tashiyev as saying the plane crashed 3 miles from the airport and that it had 123 people on board.

I suppose that we are going to repeat the first 20 pages of the Spanair thread. perhaps we could just insert a direct link into this thread and save the bandwidth. :}

For me I would like to see photos or new reports (including what some call trash reports) and absorb and challenge the reported facts before putting forth causal theories.

any other takers?

"All carriers in Kyrgyzstan are subject to a blanket ban on operations to the European Union."

I don't know how you can compare the Spanair crash to this one.

Flight International
 

Survivors reported after Kyrgyz 737-200 crash

Survivors reported after Kyrgyz 737-200 crash

Very simple, lots of people dead, but I suppose because it's in that part of the world no-one here is bothered about it. :=

Thanks God, there are survivors!
 

Officials confirm 25 survivors of Kyrgyz crash - 3rd Update :

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I suppose that we are going to repeat the first 20 pages of the Spanair thread. perhaps we could just insert a direct link into this thread and save the bandwidth. http://static.pprune.org/images/smilies/badteeth.gif

For me I would like to see photos or new reports (including what some call trash reports) and absorb and challenge the reported facts before putting forth causal theories.

any other takers?





I am disgusted, people get sick. injured and lose thier lives, and thats what you come up with, have some respect!!

If airlines and manufacturer's can NOT afford to maintain their jets properly then they have NO right to be in business,

A bad week for the airline industry, to say the least, more poor people with tags on their toes!!!

Money, money, money!!!