this is all that is left of the soviet era cargo plane that crashed near kavala in eastern greece. it was going to make an emergency landing at the city s airport but it didn t make it that far. local people saw the antonov an 12 on fire as it descended. then they heard a series of explosions after it hit the ground. all eight crew on board died, and locals felt they had had a lucky escape. translation: i wonder how it did not fall on our houses, - because it came from over there. it was full of smoke. it had a noise i can t describe and went over the mountain. it passed the mountain and turned and crashed into the fields. there were flames. we were scared. a lot of cars came but they couldn t approach because there was continuous explosions.
Ukrainian foreign ministry officials on Sunday traveled to inspect the site where a Ukrainian cargo plane crashed overnight in northern Greece, en route from Serbia to Jordan and on to Bangladesh.
investigators in northern greece have warned people living near the site of a plane crash to stay indoors because of fears the aircraft was carrying toxic material. the flight, which came down on saturday, was transporting a cargo of weapons from serbia to bangladesh. our balkans correspondent, guy delauney, has more. this is all that is left of the soviet era cargo plane that crashed near kavala in eastern greece. it was going to make an emergency landing at the city s airport but it didn t make it that far. local people saw the antonov an 12 on fire as it descended. then they heard a series of explosions after it hit the ground. all eight crew on board died, and locals felt they had had a lucky escape. translation: i wonder how it