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Missing Afghan airliner crashed, 104 on
board
Afghan crashed plane makes
no contact with Pakistan
Search for possible remains of jetliner
underway in Afghanistan
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KABUL, Feb. 4 (Xinhuanet)-- NATO and Afghan search
and rescue teams returned to their bases late Friday without sighting the
wreckage of a local jetliner that was declared missing for nearly 30 hours.
Picture taken on Jan. 9,
2005 shows a Boeing-737 of Afghanistan's sole private airline Kam Air
landing on the airport of Kabul, Afghanistan. The missing Kam Air Boeing
737 airliner with 96 passengers and eight crew on board was confirmed
at last crashed, local media said Friday. (Xinhua
Photo) | Xinhua correspondents accompanying a
NATO-led International Security Assistance Force team reported from a place some
30 km east of the capital Kabul that the searchers had suspended the operation
for the day due to nightfall and freezing weather in thearea.
Further operation will resume Saturday morning,
officers participating in the salvage effort said.
ISAF spokeswoman Karen Tissot Van Patot also
confirmed the suspension of the search bid when answering a phone call from
Xinhua.
Earlier, Xinhua has learnt from reliable sources that
the possible crash site was narrowed down to Khak-e-Jabbar District, about some
25 km southeast of the capital.
Some media reports said that part of the wreckage has
been spotted by search teams, but this could not be independently confirmed.
Local television channels in their nightly
broadcasting also quoted Enayatullah Qasemi, newly-appointed Afghan
Transportation Minister, as denying any development in the search effort.
The ill-fated Boeing 737-200 owned and operated by
Afghanistan's sole private airline lost contact with air traffic controllers
Thursday afternoon on its way back to Kabul from western border city of Herat. A
total of 104 people were on board. A number of foreigners were also among the
passengers but the exact number remains elusive. Enditem | 
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