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A passenger plane carrying 42 people on an internal flight between Kunduz and Kabul has crashed in a mountainous area of northern Afghanistan.
The Pamir Airways flight, which also had 38 passengers and five crew members on board, crashed in remote mountains between the two cities, officials said.
The Russian made AN-24 aircraft took off from Kunduz airport on Monday morning, but never arrived in Kabul. Afghan authorities said that it had crashed.
"I can confirm that an aircraft carrying 38 passengers plus five crew has crashed somewhere in Salang Pass," Interior Ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary said, after receiving a report from the airline.
"The Pamir Airways report said there were a number of foreigners on board," Bashary said.
He said that the Nato force in Afghanistan has been asked to assist in the search for the plane and the drones were searching for the crash site. A Nato spokesman confirmed that aircraft had been sent to the area.
Bad weather is already preventing any rescue efforts, Al Jazeera's Hoda Abdel-Hamid, reporting from Kabul, said after speaking to police in the area.
"We do not know the cause of the crash. It could be bad weather," she said. "The conditions are bad. It's so foggy there is no rescue going on."
She said that the airline bought the plane 3 months ago from Bulgaria. Pamir Airways is one of three major private Afghan airlines that operates mostly domestic routes across Afghanistan.
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Map of Afghanistan
Al-Jazeera
