Airliner Carrying 104 Missing in Snowstorm
An Afghan passenger jet with 96 passengers and eight crew members was missing and feared crashed after it was unable to land at Kabul airport because of a snowstorm. It failed to turn up in neighboring Pakistan, where a company official said it had been diverted.
Pakistani aviation officials said the plane did not enter their airspace. The Kam Air Boeing 737 had taken off from the western Afghan city of Herat.
It was unclear whether the plane could have landed in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad or any of the U.S. military air strips in the country.
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