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Military personnel and firefighters try to extinguish a fire at the site of an aircraft crash in Sanaa, Yemen on Feb. 19, 2013.
Reuters reports — A Yemeni air force plane crashed in the center of the capital Sanaa on Tuesday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 15, security sources said.
The Ministry of Defense said in a text message that the plane had been on a training flight when it came down in a western residential district.
A military official said the aircraft was a Russian SU-22 fighter/ground attack aircraft. Read the full story.
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The wing of a military aircraft is pulled by a police vehicle at the site of a crash in Sanaa on Feb. 19, 2013.
Khaled Abdullah / Reuters
People and police officers try to recover charred bodies of a driver and passengers by cutting the wreckage of a burnt taxi at the site of a military aircraft crash in Sanaa on Feb. 19, 2013.
A Yemeni air force plane reportedly on a training mission crashes in a residential area of Sanaa, Yemen, killing at least 11 people. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
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I don't see anyone in any of the pictures trying to do anything constructive. It seems they are all trying to get as close to the carnage as possible, yet nobody has any tools, fire hoses, stretchers or medical kits. They all appear to be gawking and grabbing souvenirs. It is painfully apparent the officials are totally unable to secure a perimeter around the crash scene, and all possible evidence of anything will be totally obliterated. Yemen is and always has been a cesspool of ignorance, superstition and religious extremism. Maybe Saudi Arabia should step in and run things, instead of the US.
I am confused, what was so "graphic" or disturbing about these images? I didnt see anything all that offensive.
So the Yemen government is buying junk planes from the Soviets. Man now that is pretty desperate. Why do they feel they need fighter jets there? Are they afraid that one of their Muslim brethren will attack them? Do they really think the Communists are going to support them?