Seven crew and 20 military personnel were on board the military transport plane, Kazakhstan's Committee for National Security said in a statement.
The A400M military transport plane program was launched six years ago with an order for 180 planes from seven governments--Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain and Turkey--but the project is running at least three years late.
One of the groups will take to the air above Panama in a transport plane to better study the sun's corona.
We should remember that Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon wanted the U.S. to build a supersonic transport (SST) plane because the British and French were doing so.
The Osprey's tiltrotor technology makes it the world's only transport plane capable of taking-off and landing vertically and converting in-flight to fly at speeds comparable to conventional turbo-props.
Canada, which is supplying logistical support to the mission, sent a military transport plane to France, where it was loaded Tuesday with supplies and personnel to continue on to Mali.
Earlier this week, a Socialist MP made a written request to the transport secretary to obtain more information on the cost of the new plane. which was ordered two years ago.
One of the first cuts I made was to replace the spacious airplane the Eagles used to transport the football team to away games with a much smaller plane chartered from a no frills airline.
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Canada is supplying logistical support to the mission and on Tuesday sent a military transport plane to France, where it was loaded with supplies and personnel to continue on to Mali.
Later, in the departures lounge, I watched the landing of a huge United States Air Force transport plane, which disgorged lots of equipment and loaded several lorries-full of troops.
On Monday, troops from the Indonesian Air Force's special forces, the Paskhas, herded goats off the Dili tarmac and watched curiously as a C-130 Hercules transport plane brought in a unit of Australian commandos.
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On Sunday, as a plane sat on the tarmac at Christmas Island waiting to transport the first group of asylum seekers to Malaysia, a High Court judge issued a temporary injunction halting the planned departure.
Cypriot Transport Minister Haris Thrassou has denied reports of 48 children being aboard the plane, telling Reuters the number of people below the age of 20 was "between 15 and 20".
Thus, since the military would no longer require any new C-17s, the one active American manufacturing line that is capable of building wide body military transport plane would be allowed to go dormant - possibly forever.
The UN confirmed that a white Antonov transport aircraft with false markings to make it look like a UN plane had been seen dropping supplies in an area where a rebel commander, David Yau Yau, has been operating.
Supporters started to descend on the Welsh capital late on Friday - travelling by road, rail and even plane with Arsenal chartering a jumbo to transport more than 700 fans to Cardiff.
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