A civilian cargo aircraft has been crashed on Monday at the a huge US-run airbase in the north of Kabul Monday,killing all seven US crew members on board, officials said.
The rescue teams rushed to the scene after the plane smashed into the ground inside the boundaries of Bagram airbase.
"All seven of the crew on board died in the accident," a spokesman for the Nato military coalition told AFP, adding that there was no reported insurgent activity in the area at the time.
The spokesman said that the flight out of Bagram airbase, 50 kilometres north of Kabul, had been operated by the US-based National Air Cargo company.
Meanwhile, the district police chief Zemaray Khan said Monday that the incident took place at about 03:00pm local time, and that there was no exact information about the casualties.
Aircraft crashes are fairly frequent in Afghanistan, where the 100,000-strong international military mission relies heavily on air transport as it battles the Taliban insurgency across the country.
It comes as, four Nato troops who were killed over the weekend in a plane crash in southern Afghanistan were Americans, according to the CNN.
The MC-12 crashed Saturday. The cause of the crash is under investigation but there was apparently no enemy activity in the area.
