A Turkish military plane has crashed in Georgia after taking off from Azerbaijan with 20 Turkish personnel on board, including the flight crew.
Video showed the C-130 transport plane spiraling before hitting the ground and exploding in a cloud of black smoke on Tuesday.
Search and rescue teams were working to reach the scene, Turkey's defense ministry said. The cause of the crash was unclear.
"A few minutes" after entering Georgian airspace, the plane "disappeared from radar without transmitting a distress signal," the Georgia Air Navigation Service said in a statement.
Georgia's interior ministry said the plane crashed "about five kilometers from Georgia's state border" with Azerbaijan.
The country's Interpress news agency said the plane had crashed in Sighnaghi, a municipality in the Kakheti region of eastern Georgia, bordering Azerbaijan. It said the incident was being investigated.
The plane was returning to Turkey when it crashed, Turkey's defense ministry confirmed.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed his condolences for "our martyrs" on the plane, without specifying details about the victims.
Local media said, without citing figures, that there were both Turkish and Azerbaijani personnel on board.
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