An airplane carrying Spanish peacekeepers back from Afghanistan crashed into a fog-shrouded mountain in northeastern Turkey and exploded Monday, killing all 75 people aboard.
Even after the crash, several blasts continued to go off amid the wreckage, apparently from ammunition on the flight exploding, sending twisted and charred metal flying over a wide area.
Most of the 62 Spanish soldiers on board had just finished a peacekeeping mission in the Afghan capital of Kabul.
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The Russian-made YAK-42D, heading from Kabul to Zarazoga, Spain, was trying to stop for fuel in the Black Sea port of Trabzon. The plane approached Trabzon but was too high so it turned away, then crashed in the mountains about 470 miles northeast of the Turkish capital of Ankara.