Fourteen British military personnel were killed Saturday after their aircraft crashed in Afghanistan, the Defence Ministry in London said. Among the 14 were 12 members of the Royal Air Force as well as one Royal Marine and a British army soldier. The aircraft, identified as a Nimrod MR2 reconnaissance plane, crashed west of the southern city of Kandahar. It had been supporting the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force ISAF mission in southern Afghanistan. An earlier ISAF statement said the aircraft crashed having declared a technical problem. An official statement said that "enemy action" had been discounted.
