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Mon 05 May 2010Plane crashes in Afghanistan
A passenger plane carrying 44 passengers and crew crashed in a remote area of Afghanistan today.
Rescuers were trying to reach the crash site near the Salang Pass, a major route through the inaccessible Hindu Kush mountains that connect the capital Kabul to the north. The crash site is some 4,000 metres above sea level.
The plane was operated by Pamir Airways, a private Afghan airline making a flight from the northern city of Kunduz to Kabul.
The cause of the crash was not immediately known, but it came amid cloudy and rainy weather in Kabul and its surrounding areas.
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