Plane crashes and catches fire in eastern Afghan Ghazni province

[Messerschmitt]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1221736580613857282

 

[Messerschmitt]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1221738193319616512

 

[I S I]

RIP

 

[PurpleButcher]

yet another boeing... May Allah have mercy on the poor souls

 

[Haris Ali2140]

RIP.

 

[Messerschmitt]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1221745316837412865

Just to add to the confusion about the Airline denying they lost a plane:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1221752811324571648

^ Pro-Taliban account claiming they shot down an American military plane

 

[razgriz19]

There's a 737 taking off or landing every second somewhere in the world. The whole world flies Boeing.

yet another boeing... May Allah have mercy on the poor souls

 

[Imran Khan]

damn what a loss of lives

 

[ejaz007]

Plane crashes in Afghanistan's Ghazni province: Officials
State-owned Ariana Airline CEO however, denies its plane crashed, amid conflicting reports on the accident.

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Senior Afghan officials say a plane has crashed in eastern Ghazni province, but the country's state-owned Ariana Airlines denied reports that one of its planes had crashed on Monday.

"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," the airline's acting CEO Mirwais Mirzakwal Mirzakwal told Reuters news agency.

Earlier, three senior Afghan government officials said one of the state-owned airline's planes had crashed in the Sado Khel area of Deh Yak district of Ghazni province around 1:10 pm (08.40 GMT) local time on Monday.

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Official sources in the province said the plane was en route to Ghazni from Herat when it crashed.

The plane crashed in a territory under Taliban control, Tolo news reported, adding that Afghan special forces will be sent to the crash site.

However, Ariana Airlines released a statement on its website saying all its aircraft were operational and safe.

The conflicting accounts could not immediately be reconciled. The number of people on board and their fate was not immediately known, nor was the cause of the crash.

The mountainous Ghazni province sits in the foothills of the Hindu Kush mountains and is bitterly cold in winter.

The last major commercial air crash in Afghanistan occurred in 2005 when a Kam Air flight from western Herat to the capital Kabul crashed into the mountains as it tried to land in snowy weather.

The South Asian nation however, has seen a number of deadly crashes of military aircraft.

One of the most spectacular occurred in 2013 when an American Boeing 747 cargo jet crashed shortly after takeoff from Bagram air base north of Kabul en route to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. All seven crew member were killed.

SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020...shes-eastern-afghanistan-200127101145634.html

 

[Abdul Rehman Majeed]

I hope it's not a civilian plane..
Lets hope it was a plane full of american soldiers.

Looks like Taliban/Pakistan have taken down the US military plane.

Pro-Taliban account claiming they shot down an American military plane

 

[Messerschmitt]

^ Pictures allegedly from the crash site spread by pro-Taliban accounts. The aircraft appears to be a Bombardier Global Express or CRJ series jet to me. Take this with a pinch of salt since these are all still preliminary reports.

 

[Abdul Rehman Majeed]

Does this mean end of Taliban/Pakistan and US talks?

 

[The Eagle]

Does this mean end of Taliban/Pakistan and US talks?

There is no evidence of shooting down neither anyone claims as such. Apparently, it is a crash due to technical fault. However, more of accounts are reporting a foreign military plane... most probably Globe Master C-17.

 

[Messerschmitt]

^ Another picture making its round on Twitter

 

[Taimoor Khan]

^ Pictures allegedly from the crash site spread by pro-Taliban accounts. The aircraft appears to be a Bombardier Global Express or CRJ series jet to me. Take this with a pinch of salt since these are all still preliminary reports.

Yes looks like one of those "private jets" without marking. Seems like one of the active intel agency in Afghanistan was hit.