AP Pictures from scene of reported Israeli aircraft crash

Описание: (17 Jul 2006) SHOTLIST
Southern Beirut
1. Tracking shot with huge plume of smoke in distance
2. Tracking shot with closer view of huge plume of smoke
3. Wide shot of flames and smoke from large burning object on ground
4. Closer shot flames and smoke
5. Wide shot smoke - pan to flames raging
6. Tilt done from plume of black smoke to flames
7. Wider shot smoke and flames
8. Various of armed Hezbollah militia at the scene
9. Wide shot of road with debris
10. More flames from burning debris on hillside
11. Firemen dousing burning trick on nearby road
STORYLINE
Lebanese TV stations reported on Monday that an Israeli military aircraft had gone down near Beirut, but there was no confirmation from Lebanese officials, and the Israeli army denied it had lost a plane.
AP Television News footage showed what appeared to be wreckage of a large object burning fiercely near a Hezbollah stronghold in southern Beirut, sending huge plumes of black smoke into the air.
Armed Hezbollah militants were also filmed at the scene.
The airstrike and the object's impact started separate bush fires.
Large pieces of metal that appeared to be of military origin littered a road, but there was no sign of body parts among the debris.
Earlier Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (LBC) showed footage of a burning object crashing into the ground at Kfar Chima, a town near southern Beirut, which has been under Israeli air attack for several days.
LBC described the object as an F-16 fighter jet.
Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV said the aircraft was a helicopter gunship and also showed footage of what it says was the wreckage burning.
The object could have been a pilotless drone or an extra fuel tank dropped by an aircraft.
The report of the crash was followed by an Israeli airstrike in the same area.
Israel's Channel 10 TV reported that the object shown on Lebanese television was apparently a container of leaflets that fell from an Israeli military plane.
Israel has been dropping propaganda leaflets over areas of Lebanon during its incursion, sometimes in a bid to warn residents of an impending aerial strike.

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