Passenger plane crashes in Afghanistan

A passenger plane carrying 44 passengers which include 6 foreign nationals has crashed in Afghanistan. Officials reported that it was a domestic flight and it had crashed in the Salang pass. There has been no official word on the casualties of the crash. It was reported that the aircraft was operated by Pamir Airways a private airlines in Afghanistan which had started its operation in 1995, since then it has been operating many domestic flight and flights to Dubai and Saudi Arabia for the Hajj pilgrims as well. The immediate cause of the accident is still unknown but aviation experts in Afghanistan suspect poor weather could have been the cause for the disaster. The crash site is 12,400 feet the Salang pass, it is expected that the search and rescue could have problems in reaching debris of the crashed aircraft.