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To: greenspirit who wrote (42073)	1/9/2002 8:01:06 PM
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News reporting: A US KC-130 refuelling jet crashed at the Shamsi airport, Kharan district, some 460 km from Balochistan capital, on Wednesday evening, killing more than 10 US soldiers on board, sources said. The sources said that more than 10 US soldiers were on board when the plane crashed at around 7:30 pm while landing and burst into flames. Eyewitnesses told The News that when the plane was landing at the airport, more than 15 warplanes and some six helicopters of the US-led allied forces were parked there. Emergency was declared at the airport as some other planes, which were parked at the airport also damaged, they said. The plane had taken off fron Shahbaz Airbase two hours earlier. After the incident, fire fighters and rescuers rushed to the scene and started operation. The cause behind the incident is stated to be some technical fault developed in the plane. However, the flames were very high that can be seen from several kilometres away from the Shamsi airport. Another source said that soon after the incident, the US army men reached the spot and retrieved the bodies of US military men. Heavy contingents of paramilitary force had cordoned off the area around the Shamsi airport whereas Frontier Corps (FC) and police are patrolling in the city. Emergency has also been declared in Jacobabad, where all the ambulances of the district have been called for quick transportation of any injured. AFP adds: The Pentagon confirmed in Washington that the US Marine Corps KC-130 air-refuelling aircraft, carrying seven marines crashed into a mountain on Wednesday while making an approach to land at a forward operating base in Pakistan. It was not immediately known whether any aboard survived the crash, said Navy Commander Dan Keesee, a spokesman for the US Central Command said. "We don't know the disposition of the crew at this point," he said. An investigation was under way into the circumstances surrounding the crash, he said. "It just breaks your heart," US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters at a ceremony honouring retired Army General Henry Shelton, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff. "It is a tough and dangerous business over there. They are doing a dangerous job and they are doing it darn well," he said. He said the latest reports were that the plane was carrying passengers when it went down, but he cautioned that they were sketchy and subject to change as more detailed information comes in. "We don't even know in this instance if people lost their lives," he said. The aircraft was on a flight from Jacobabad as part of a multi-stop mission when it crashed at 1515 GMT near Shamsi airport, Pakistan, Keesee added.