By Jim Miklaszewski, NBC NewsA U.S. military cargo plane crashed Friday near the border of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, according to Pentagon and Central Command officials.
It was not immediately clear how many people were on board.
Reuters quoted an official from Kyrgyzstan's Emergencies Ministry as saying the aircraft had "caught fire in the air and crashed."
The plane disappeared from radar near the Kyrgyz village of Chaldovar, 55 miles from the U.S. Air Force base at Manas (http://www.manas.afcent.af.mil/) in Kyrgyzstan, which U.S. forces maintain for operations in Afghanistan, according to Reuters.
Reuters contributed to this report.
This story was originally published on Fri May 3, 2013 8:01 AM EDT
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