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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Plane crashes in Afghanistan with 43 on board AFP - 23 minutes ago Send IM Story Print SALANG, Afghanistan (AFP) - – An Afghan passenger plane carrying 43 people, including three Britons, crashed in the mountains of northern Afghanistan on Monday, sparking a frantic search operation, officials said. It was unclear whether there were any survivors. The Pamir Airways plane had been en route from the northern province of Kunduz to Kabul when it came down over the treacherous Hindu Kush mountains, shrouded in heavy snow. According to the passenger manifest seen by AFP, six people on board were foreigners and the rest Afghans. A Turkish aid organisation, the IHH, said two of its employees -- both Turkish men -- were on board the ill-fated plane, but there was no immediate confirmation from the Turkish foreign ministry. "I can confirm that a Pamir Airways plane has crashed over the Salang mountains with 38 passengers and five crew members on board," interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary told AFP. The Afghan acting transport minister, Mohammadullah Batash, said the aircraft lost radio contact 37 minutes after taking off on a return journey to the capital -- normally around an hour's flying. "The plane left Kabul at 6:40 am (0210 GMT) and took off from Kunduz at 8:30 am back to Kabul, but lost radio contact at 9:07 am," Batash said. The minister, who went to the suspected crash site in the Salang mountains to oversee the search for the wreckage and any survivors, said the cause of the crash was not clear. Poor weather could have been a contributing factor. "We have to recover the black box to determine the cause," Batash said. "We cannot rule out any of the usual causes behind crashes -- which could be bad weather, technical error, thunder and lightening or even terrorist attacks," he said. Yalda Natiq, director of communications at the transport ministry, said the Antonov 24, which is a Soviet-made turboprop plane, crashed due to bad weather. Dozens of Afghan police and local residents started to climb the snow-capped mountains where the plane is believed to have crashed, Abdul Rehmand Sayeedkhaili, police chief of Parwan province, told AFP. A highway task force, responsible for clearing snow from the Salang mountain pass -- the main road from Kabul to northern Afghanistan -- reported a blast at around the time the plane went missing, Sayeedkhaili said. "We hope to find the crash site before it gets totally dark," said Sayeedkhaili. Snow, cold weather and the harsh terrain made the search operation difficult and it would be impossible to continue after dark, he said. According to a passenger list obtained by AFP from the Pamir Airways office in Kunduz, six foreigners, including a woman, boarded the plane. There were 35 men and two Afghan women, according to the name list. A British embassy spokeswoman in Kabul confirmed that three British citizens were on board. The US embassy also said it was "investigating" the nationalities of those on board. NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) fighting against the Taliban said it was assisting with the recovery operation. "A manned ISAF fixed-wing aircraft has been dispatched to the last known position of the missing plane. However, the poor weather conditions in the area are hampering the aerial search," the military said. "Two ISAF helicopters are en route to the area. Other ISAF helicopters are also on standby... to assist in any rescue effort," it said. According to its website, Pamir Airways was founded in May 1995 and is the oldest private airline in Afghanistan. Pamir Airways flies between Kabul and Kunduz six days a week. As well as domestic routes that criss-cross the mountainous country, the company flies to Dubai, New Delhi, Jeddah and Riyadh, according to its website. Commercial aviation incidents are rare in Afghanistan, where travel by road can be hazardous due to the nearly nine-year Taliban insurgency. In February 2005, a Boeing 737 operated by private company Kam Air crashed in the mountains on the outskirts of Kabul during heavy snow. There were 104 people on board, including two dozen foreigners. There were no survivors. The increasingly deadly Taliban-led insurgency in Afghanistan has seen the United States and NATO allies decide to boost their military deployment in the country to a scheduled 150,000 by August. 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