{"id":22383,"date":"2013-05-03T10:59:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T13:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=22383"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:34:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:34:14","slug":"reports-usaf-kc-135-crashes-in-kyrgyzstan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/03\/reports-usaf-kc-135-crashes-in-kyrgyzstan\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports: USAF KC-135 Crashes in Kyrgyzstan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Initial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/05\/03\/world\/asia\/kyrgyzstan-us-aircraft-missing\/\">reports indicate<\/a> (and Air Force sources\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/inserbia.info\/news\/2013\/05\/kyrgyzstan-us-transit-center-airplane-crashed-near-the-kyrgyz-kazakh-border\/\">reportedly confirm<\/a>) \u00a0a US Air Force KC-135 has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/article\/20130503\/NEWS\/305030002\">crashed after takeoff<\/a> from Manas, Kyrgyzstan, which is a transit hub for US forces in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Five people were on board, said Elmira Shyrypova, at the Kyrgyz Emergencies Ministry press office. The U.S. military didn&#8217;t give the number of those on the plane and said &#8220;the status of the crew is unknown.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Purported <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militaryphotos.net\/forums\/showthread.php?226112-Reports-of-USAF-KC-135-crashing-near-Bishkek-Kyrgyzstan&amp;s=763521d508cacdfdc6e010f86c59c7fa&amp;p=6689413&amp;viewfull=1#post6689413\">photos of the crash site<\/a> show KC-135 wing\u00a0parts and a McConnell AFB tail flash.<\/p>\n<p>KC-135s can carry cargo and are also refuelers for the many fighter aircraft supporting combat operations in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2013\/05\/03\/us-military-refuelling-plane-crashes-in-kyrgyzstan\/\">at FoxNews<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Initial reports indicate (and Air Force sources\u00a0reportedly confirm) \u00a0a US Air Force KC-135 has crashed after takeoff from Manas, Kyrgyzstan, which is a transit hub for US forces in Afghanistan. Five people were on board, said Elmira Shyrypova, at the Kyrgyz Emergencies Ministry press office. The U.S. military didn&#8217;t give the number of those on the plane and said &#8220;the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[58,134,13,619,5285,2058,2053,2586,3994,2],"class_list":["post-22383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-afghanistan","tag-air-force","tag-aircraft","tag-crash","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-kc-135","tag-kyrgyzstan","tag-manas","tag-mcconnell-afb","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}