A Turkish cargo plane crashed in a residential area near the capital of Kirgizstan on 16 January. At least 37 people were left dead after the crash, according to CNN, most of them families who lived in the area that was struck.
The crash cost at
least 37 lives and 15 people were brought to the hospital, according to
Kirgizstan’s health minister Talantbek Batyraliayev. Kirgizstan authorities state that 6
of the dead are children. Local emergency workers have stated that around 40
buildings in the area have been damaged or completely ruined in the crash
whilst pictures only show 23 damaged houses.
It was 7 am in the
morning local time when the plane crashed in the residential area, missing the
nearby airstrip by only a couple hundreds of metres. There was a heavy fog
present at the time of the crash but if the reason for the crash is because of
the limited vision is unknown. The plane was headed to Istanbul from Hong Kong
and planned to make a stop in Manas, where it later crashed.
The primary
victims of the crash were the families living in the area, since the airplane
did not carry any passengers the fatalities were mainly those who got struck on
the ground. Both the pilots died in the crash and in total 52 were either killed
or injured as a result of the incident.
The airport in Manas
has been closed and all flights have been cancelled. This incident is not the
first to strike Manas, in 2008 a flight carrying passengers heading to Iran
crashed shortly after take-off, a total of 68 people died that day.
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