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Slovak military plane crashes
YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS(CNN) -- An AN-24 military plane believed to be carrying more than 40 Slovak soldiers and crew members has crashed in rugged terrain in northern Hungary. Hungarian government spokesman Andras Batiz said rescue teams reported at least one survivor. A Hungarian police spokesman has told a media conference that 44 people had been killed in the crash, Reuters news service reports. The plane was carrying peacekeepers from the NATO-led force in Kosovo back to the Slovak base in Kosice, spokesman Laszlo Garamvolgyi said. "Forty-four people died, this is certain, and one survived," he said. About 100 Hungarian special forces, using infrared goggles, climbed the rocky terrain and were searching the area, Batiz said. The survivor was being taken to the border, Batiz said, where he would be handed over to a Slovakian rescue team for transport to a hospital in Kosice, Slovakia. It was not immediately known if the survivor was one of the soldiers or a crew member. The crash site is in a remote mountainous area, accessible only by foot, near the Hungarian town of Telkibanya, about 1.6 kilometers (one mile) from the Slovak border. The plane crashed about 7:30 p.m. (6:30 p.m. GMT). Correspondent Stephanie Halasz contributed to this report. 
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