BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — A Turkish cargo plane crashed Monday in a residential area just outside the main airport in Kyrgyzstan, destroying half of a village and killing at least 37 people in the plane and on the ground, the Emergency Situations Ministry said.

The Boeing 747 crashed at 7:40 a.m. while approaching the Manas airport, south of the capital, Bishkek, in this Central Asian nation.

Footage from the scene showed the plane’s nose stuck inside a brick house. A dozen body bags were laid out in the yard of one home. A car was mangled in the crash, and a refrigerator lay open.

The bodies of 15 victims, including five children, all of them Kyrgyz citizens, had been identified by Monday evening, the Kyrgyz government said. Another 15 people, including six children, were hospitalized.

Emergency Situations Minister Kubatbek Boronov said 23 of the village’s 43 houses were destroyed.

The plane, which had departed from Hong Kong, belonged to the Istanbul-based cargo company ACT Airlines, which said the dead included the plane’s four Turkish crew members: two pilots, a freight expert, and a flight technician.

The cause of the crash was not clear. Boronov told reporters it was foggy when the plane came down but weather conditions were not critical.

ACT Airlines said the crash was not the result of ‘‘technical reasons or factors linked to the freight’’ on the plane. It did not specify the plane’s cargo.

One of the plane’s two flight recorders was recovered, the prime minister’s office said.

The Manas airport has been expanded since the United States began to operate a military installation there, using it primarily for its operations in Afghanistan. The United States handed the base over to the Kyrgyz military in 2014.

ACT Airlines said the plane’s records book showed no technical faults and the plane had not encountered any mishaps during its journey or as it proceeded to land at Bishkek.

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, called Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev on Monday to express his condolences and convey his sadness at the loss of lives in the disaster.

Turkey’s transportation ministry also sent two experts from its accident investigation board to Bishkek to assist Kyrgyz authorities.