(21 May 2010) SHOTLIST
++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
Shakar Darah, north of Kabul
1. Mid of helicopter taking off
2. Aerials of area north of Kabul
3. Aerial of mountains
4. Aerial of bodies on the ground
5. Covered bodies
6. Various of Afghan soldiers carrying bodies to helicopter
7. SOUNDBITE (Dari), Mohammadullah Batash, Afghan Aviation Minister:
"Unfortunately we found some bodies and we are taking them to hospital so that experts can identify them."
Charikar, north of Kabul
8. Helicopters landing
9. Bodies being carried out of helicopter
10. Ambulances
11. Various of victims' relatives waiting
12. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Abdul Mahfouz, victims' relative:
"Two dead bodies of my relatives are there, why are the government not taking us there to identify the bodies?"
13. Mid of Afghan policemen carrying bodies
14. Ambulance leaving
STORYLINE
Searchers found no sign of survivors on Friday among 44 people on board a commercial airliner that crashed this week on a remote Afghan mountain, the aviation minister said.
The Antonov-24 operated by Pamir Airways disappeared on Monday on a flight from Kunduz to Kabul.
The wreckage was spotted Thursday by a search plane on a 13,500-foot (4,100-meter) mountain in Shakar Darah district north of Kabul.
Aviation Minister Mohammadullah Batash told The Associated Press that ground searchers reached the site on Friday but found no sign of survivors.
Three Britons and one American were among eight foreign passengers on the plane along with nationals from Pakistan and Australia, according to chief aviation investigator Ghulam Farooq.
He did not have precise numbers for Australian and Pakistani passengers.
Russia's Itar-Tass news agency said three Tajikistan citizens working for the airline were also aboard, possibly among the crew.
Bad weather and the rugged mountain terrain hampered the search.
Kabul-based Pamir Airways, named after the Pamir mountain range of Central Asia, began operations in 1995.
It has daily flights to major Afghan cities and flies to Dubai and Saudi Arabia for the hajj pilgrimage.
Pamir's chief executive officer said the plane was last inspected about three months ago in Bulgaria.
The An-24 is a medium-range twin-turboprop civil aircraft built in the former Soviet Union from 1950 to 1978.
A modernised version is still made in China.
The An-24 has a rugged design, ease of maintenance and low operating costs.
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