Manas air base

• Fairchild Air Force Base supplies much of the aircraft and personnel operating out of the U.S. military airfield, which was activated in 2001 as a supply and refueling hub for the war in Afghanistan.

Web extras: View a large-format gallery of photos from the crash site at spokesman.com/ picture-stories. Find a link to a previous Spokesman-Review report about the base packaged with this story at spokesman.com.