Passenger plane crashed in Afghanistan
Passenger plane crashed in Afghanistan
A passenger plane has crashed in the central Ghazni province in Afghanistan, senior Afghan officials said on Monday.

TEHRAN (Iran News) – A passenger plane has crashed in the central Ghazni province in Afghanistan, senior Afghan officials said on Monday.

According to local media, the passenger plane crashed in territory under Taliban control and Afghanistan special forces are to be sent to the crash site. The number of casualties was unclear, an official told Reuters.

It was initially reported to be a plane from the state-owned Ariana Afghan Airlines. However, Reuters has since said that the airline’s acting CEO Mirwais Mirzakwal has denied that one of its planes has crashed.

“There has been an airline crash but it does not belong to Ariana because the two flights managed by Ariana today from Herat to Kabul and Herat to Delhi are safe,” Mirzakwal told Reuters.

A Facebook account, purportedly belonging to the airline, also said that if any crash did happen it didn’t involve one of its planes.

CNBC has attempted to contact Ariana Afghan Airlines directly but has so far received no reply.

Earlier, three senior Afghan government officials said one of the state-owned airline’s planes had crashed.

Reuters reported that Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, said the group was checking on the news of a plane crash near that zone.

  • source : CNBC, Iran News