Another plane crash. This time in Kyrgyzstan.

[RL3AO]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/24/jet.crash.ap/index.html

MOSCOW, Russia (AP) -- Russian news agencies report that a Boeing passenger jet has crashed while taking off in Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek.

The Interfax news agency cites an unidentified source as saying there are casualties and identifies the plane as a Boeing 737.

RIA-Novosti cites an unnamed spokesperson at a U.S. air base near the airport in Bishkek as saying a passenger airliner crashed. Officials at the airport and the base could not be reached.
Interfax says the Itek-Air flight was headed to Iran.

[HurricaneBill]

68 dead; 22 survivors

68 feared dead in Kyrgyzstan jetliner crash