Pamir Airplane Crashes in Afghanistan

Kabul, May 17 : Pamir Airways (Kabul) has lost an airplane today in a remote part of Afghanistan (possibly an Antonov An-24). The aircraft was carrying 44 passengers and crew, including six foreigners, in a mountainous northern region with poor weather.

Rescuers were on their way to the crash site near the 12,700-foot high Salang Pass, a major route through the Hindu Kush mountains that connects the capital to the north. The plane, on a flight from the northern city of Kunduz, went down about 60 miles from Kabul.

Read the full report from the Associated Press:

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