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Search Teams in Afghanistan Find Tail of Missing Plane

   VOA News 20 May 2010
   An  Afghan military helicopter looks for the Afghan plane that crashed
   with 44 on board over Salang Pass, Afghanistan. The plane, operated by
   Pamir  Airways, a private Afghan airline, was traveling from Kunduz in
   northern Afghanistan to Kabul when it crashe

Photo: AP

   An  Afghan military helicopter looks for the Afghan plane that crashed
   with 44 on board over Salang Pass, Afghanistan. The plane, operated by
   Pamir  Airways, a private Afghan airline, was traveling from Kunduz in
   northern Afghanistan to Kabul when it crashed Monday, 18 May 2010.

   Afghan  officials say searchers have spotted wreckage from a passenger
   plane  that  crashed in the mountains near Kabul Monday with 43 people
   on board.
   The  officials  said  the  tail of the Pamir Airways plane was seen in
   photographs  brought  back  from  search  aircraft  on Thursday.  The
   wreckage  was  located in mountainous terrain several dozen kilometers
   north of the capital, Kabul.
   Six foreigners, including an American and three British citizens, were
   on  board  when  the  plane crashed earlier this week while on its way
   from the northern city of Kunduz to the Afghan capital.
   Afghan officials say they plan to launch a ground and air operation to
   reach  the crash site.  Poor weather and rugged terrain have hampered
   the search for victims.
   Privately-owned  Pamir  Airways began operations in 1995.  The Afghan
   airline  has  daily  domestic flights and also flies to Dubai.  Pamir
   uses a Russian-made Antonov An-24 aircraft on its Kunduz-Kabul route.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP and AFP.

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