Kyrgyzstan. Gesundheit.

A passenger jet carrying 90 people, including a Kyrgyz high school sports team, crashed shortly after takeoff Sunday near the Kyrgyz capital, killing 65, government officials said. The Boeing 737 was headed to Iran when it crashed near Bishkek's Manas International Airport, said government spokeswoman Roza Daudova. Twenty-two people, including two crew members, survived the accident. Earlier, Daudova had said there were at least 68 dead and 25 survivors, but she later gave lower figures.

WP: "Tventy, tirty, forty, who knows? I'm bad with math." she said. "Sounds like work of Moose and Squirrel," she later commented.

An airport official said the crew reported a technical problem about 10 minutes into the flight and that the plane was returning to the airport when it crashed. The official said she was not authorized to give her name.

WP: How official can you be if you can't give your name?

Among the survivors, were seven out the 17 members of the basketball team from a school in the capital, Bishkek, said Health Ministry spokeswoman Yelena Bayalinova. Residential adviser Tokon Mamytov, however, later said that the athletes were volleyball, not basketball players.

WP: "Hey, all I know is they toss around a ball of some sort."