Another plane crash in Azerbaijan

The Azerbaijani plane took off from an Afghan military airport and crashed shortly afterwards, killing almost the entire crew.

Seven people were killed when a plane belonging to Azerbaijan's Silk Way airline crashed in southern Afghanistan, the AP news agency quoted a US military spokesman in Afghanistan as saying.

Silk Way Airlines. Photo: airportinternational.

The spokesman said on May 19 that the plane was carrying nine people at the time of the accident after taking off from Dwyer, a military base in Helmand province, on May 18.

According to him, two survivors of the accident were airlifted to Kandahar airport for treatment.

The spokesman said the passengers were Eastern Europeans. Reuters news agency confirmed that the crew of the cargo plane included citizens of Azerbaijan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.

A US military spokesman confirmed there was no military element in this plane crash.

According to VOV