Salang Pass 1. Afghan officials gathered at Salang Pass 2. Wide of official's vehicles 3. Salang mountain 4. Ambulances parked on roadside 5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Myar Rasooli, Manager of Kabul Airport: "Early morning today, around 9 o'clock, I heard from our tower that a Pamir airways aircraft PM1102 from Kunduz to Kabul was in our radar in about 85 miles from Kabul. Our approach radar missed the aircraft." 6. Salang mountain with snow Kabul 7. Mid of passengers carrying their baggage at Kabul airport 8. People walking out of security check point 9. Mid of passengers with baggage 10. Relatives of passengers onboard crashed Afghan passenger plane in front of ticket office 11. Tilt up of Pamir Airways empty office 12. Close of poster with picture of Pamir Airways plane 13. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) Jaweed Stanikzai, brother of passenger on downed flight: "My brother was coming from Kunduz, we spoke with him at 8 o'clock this morning, he told us that he was on the plane and could not talk, but would call us as soon as he could. He has been missing since 8 o'clock, nobody is providing us with any information about the incident." 14. Various of relatives outside the arrival terminal STORYLINE: Dense fog on Monday forced rescuers to search on foot for the wreckage of an Afghan passenger plane carrying 44 people, including six foreigners, that crashed earlier in mountains north of Kabul, officials said. There was no immediate word of the passengers' fates. The British embassy in Kabul confirmed that three British citizens were on the plane, but did not identify them. One American also was on board, a State Department official in Washington said on condition of anonymity pending notification of family. The nationalities of the two other foreigners were not immediately available. Seventy rescue workers were searching on the ground as dense fog covered the area of the crash near the 12,700-foot (3,800-metre) -high Salang Pass, a major route through the Hindu Kush mountains that connects the capital to the north. The plane, operated by Pamir Airways, a private Afghan airline, was flying from the northern city of Kunduz to the capital, said the police chief at Kabul's international airport. It crashed about 60 miles (100 kilometres) from Kabul, he said. "Early morning today, around 9 o'clock, I heard from our tower that a Pamir airways aircraft PM1102 from Kunduz to Kabul was in our radar in about 85 miles from Kabul. Our approach radar missed the aircraft," said Myar Rasooli, who is manager of Kabul airport and was with rescue teams on the Salang pass on Monday. At the request of the Afghan government, NATO dispatched a fixed-wing aircraft to the last known position of the plane. A spokesman for the NATO air unit assisting in the search said the US plane got within four miles (seven kilometres) of the crash site, but had to turn back because of bad weather. Other NATO helicopters were on standby at Bagram Air Field and at the Kabul airport to assist in any rescue effort, NATO said in a statement. The Afghan Defence Ministry also ordered the nation's air force to be on standby. Jaweed Stanikzai, the brother of a passenger on the plane, told The Associated Press at the Kabul airport that he last talked to his brother at 8 a.m. "He told us that he was on the plane and could not talk, but would call us as soon as he could," he said. "Nobody is providing us any information about the incident." Deputy Transportation Minister Raz Mohammad Alami, who was travelling to the crash site with the minister of aviation and other officials, said the plane was carrying 44 people, including six foreigners and six crew members. Kabul-based Pamir Airways started operations in 1995. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/3f160ea5100b8e468f314df9c4866eeb Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

• published: 24 Jul 2015
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