The wreckage of an Afghan airliner that went missing with 104 people on board was found today near the Kabul a day after it was turned away because of heavy snow.
The Kam Air Boeing 737 was found to the northeast of the capital, but the security source did not say if there were any survivors.
NATO troops and helicopters have been searching for the plane, which was on a flight from the western city of Herat to Kabul yesterday when it went missing after being turned away from Kabul airport.
At least seven of the 96 passengers were foreigners and six of the eight crew members were from Kyrgyzstan.
The foreigners included three American women working for a Massachusetts-based company, Management Sciences for Health, its Kabul representative said.
Deputy Interior Minister Shah Mahmoud Miakhel told Reuters the plane may not have had sufficient fuel to enable it to fly as far as an airport in Pakistan.
Kam Air financial controller Zimarai Kamgar said the aircraft had contacted Peshawar airport in northwestern Pakistan about an hour after it was turned away from Kabul at about 11.30 p.m. (Irish time) yesterday.
Pakistani aviation officials said the plane had never made contact. Kam Air opened as Afghanistan's only private airline in November 2003.