3 foreigners among passengers aboard missing Afghan airliner
4/2/2005 15:24
There were three foreigners and 93 local passengers aboard the missing
private airliner scheduled to fly from western Afghanistan to Kabul, Kam Air
office confirmed in Kabul Friday. "One American and two Turks were on the
list of 96 passengers," Kam Air office told Xinhua. "The airliner is still
missing till this point." According to the office, there were also eight crew
member on board. In addition to two Afghan flight attendants, there were also
six Russian Canadian pilots and air stewardesses. The Boeing 737 was
scheduled to land in Kabul Thursday afternoon after taking off from Herat, the
western city bordering Iran. Due to bad weather, the plane lost contact with air
controllers since. Conflicting news about the fate of the airliner abounded.
Some said it had landed safely in neighboring Peshawar airport, or Pakistani
capital of Islamabad. Others guessed it had crashed. None of them can be
independently confirmed.
Xinhua
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