No sign of survivors from crash near Kabul
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May 22, 2010, Saturday
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SEARCHERS found no sign of survivors yesterday among 44 people on board a commercial airliner that crashed this week on a remote Afghan mountain, the country's aviation minister said.
The Antonov-24 operated by Pamir Airways disappeared on Monday on a flight from Kunduz to Kabul. The wreckage was spotted on Thursday by a search plane on a 4,100-meter mountain in Shakar Darah district north of Kabul.
Aviation Minister Mohammadullah Batash said that ground searchers reached the site yesterday but found no sign of survivors.
Three Britons and one American were among eight foreign passengers on the plane along with nationals from Pakistan and Australia, said chief aviation investigator Ghulam Farooq. He did not have numbers for Australian and Pakistani passengers.
Russia's Itar-Tass news agency said three Tajikistan citizens working for the airline were also aboard, possibly among the crew.
Photos supplied by NATO forces show the plane broken into four pieces and strewn across a steep mountainside about 38 kilometers north of Kabul. Bad weather and the rugged mountain terrain hampered the search.
Kabul-based Pamir Airways, named after the Pamir mountain range of Central Asia, began operations in 1995. It has daily flights to major Afghan cities and flies to Dubai and Saudi Arabia for the hajj pilgrimage.
Elsewhere, a NATO soldier was killed yesterday by a roadside bomb.
Another roadside bomb exploded in Kandahar, killing one civilian and wounding three children.
The Antonov-24 operated by Pamir Airways disappeared on Monday on a flight from Kunduz to Kabul. The wreckage was spotted on Thursday by a search plane on a 4,100-meter mountain in Shakar Darah district north of Kabul.
Aviation Minister Mohammadullah Batash said that ground searchers reached the site yesterday but found no sign of survivors.
Three Britons and one American were among eight foreign passengers on the plane along with nationals from Pakistan and Australia, said chief aviation investigator Ghulam Farooq. He did not have numbers for Australian and Pakistani passengers.
Russia's Itar-Tass news agency said three Tajikistan citizens working for the airline were also aboard, possibly among the crew.
Photos supplied by NATO forces show the plane broken into four pieces and strewn across a steep mountainside about 38 kilometers north of Kabul. Bad weather and the rugged mountain terrain hampered the search.
Kabul-based Pamir Airways, named after the Pamir mountain range of Central Asia, began operations in 1995. It has daily flights to major Afghan cities and flies to Dubai and Saudi Arabia for the hajj pilgrimage.
Elsewhere, a NATO soldier was killed yesterday by a roadside bomb.
Another roadside bomb exploded in Kandahar, killing one civilian and wounding three children.
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