IL-76TD cargo plane, registered 4K-AZ55, was destroyed in an accident near Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan. The plane is said to have flown into the side of a mountain at about . The aircraft belonged to "Silk Way Airlines". The transport plane carried a total of 18 tons of cargo for the NATO-led forces at Bagram Air Base. All nine crew members died in accident – three of them were citizens of Azerbaijan. July 9, 2011 – An American PMC was killed in an ambush. October 29, 2011 – 5 American contractors, 2 British contractors, and 1 Kosovan contractor were killed, along with 4 US and 1 Canadian soldier, including a civilian employee of the Defense Contract Management Agency, in a suicide bomb attack on their military convoy in Kabul. December 18, 2011 – One American contractor died on FOB Salerno while working on a camera system. Details of his death remain unclear to the next of kin. The specifics have been held back by the contractors employer and the insurance company carrying the Defense Base Act insurance. The insurance company has denied payment of claim by the next of kin. 2012 January 16, 2012 – Three American private contractors working for the Defense Department were killed when their helicopter crashed in Helmand province. They were working for AAR Airlift company. February 11, 2012 – Mi-8MTV-1 helicopter crashed in Zabul province, 3 crew members – citizens of Tajikistan were killed. April 15, 2012 – An American PMC, Norman Spruill, was killed in Logar province by an IED. April 18, 2012 – One U.S. private contractor died; 43-year-old Billy Ross Blankenship was working in Kabul as a contractor for Intelligence Software Solutions, Inc. His cause of death is still under investigation. July 22, 2012 – Two Americans and one British NATO contractors were shot and killed in Afghanistan by an Afghan man dressed in an Afghan police uniform in a military training centre near the Herat Airport. September 18, 2012 – A suicide bomber killed a total of 12 foreign civilians (one was Briton. and eight were South Africans) and three Afghans near an airport in Kabul. September 29, 2012 – One U.S. civilian contractor (Kevin O’Rourke) was killed in the Sayed Abad district of the Wardak province, when an Afghan National Army member opened fire on American troops. December 24, 2012 – An Iranian woman, dressed in an Afghan police uniform,