Posted on 22nd May 2010 by gjohnson in Uncategorized
Afghan plane crash, plane crash attorney
Searchers Friday found the wreckage, but no survivors, of an Afghan commercial airplane that went missing shortly after takeoff earlier this week. http://www.upi.com/Top_News/International/2010/05/21/Bodies-found-at-Afghan-plane-crash-site/UPI-66351274485878/
Reports varied as to whether there were 43 or 44 aboard the plane, but none of them lived. The bodies of 15 had been found as of Saturday afternoon in a remote section of Afghanistan.
The Pamir Airways plane, an old Antonov-24, crashed and landed on a 13,500-foot mountain. The plane’s wreckage — and body parts — were strewn over a large snowy area. The aircraft’s black box was recovered, according to authorities.
The crash, whose cause isn’t known yet, took place in the Gorband district of Parwan province. The plane, which had taken off from the northern Kunduz province, had been en route to Kabul.
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Posted on 17th May 2010 by gjohnson in Uncategorized
Afghan plane crash, plane crash, plane crash attorney
An Afghan plane with at least 43 passengers crashed in a snowstorm in the Hindu Kush mountains Monday, and Western military forces were among those trying to find the wreckage and rescue survivors.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fgw-afghan-crash-20100518,0,1251031.story
The plane, an older Russian Antonov-24 turboprop, was carrying at least five foreigners, said officials in the northern city of Kunduz, which is where the flight originated.
The aircraft, operated by Pamir airways, took off at 8:30 a.m. for the capital Kabul when it disappeared after entering the airspace over the mountains of the Salang Pass in Afghanistan. Authorities believe that the plane went down roughly 60 miles north of Kabul.
Afghanistan’s private airlines have a number of older Russian aircraft, such as the AN-24, in their fleets. That particular aricraft is at least 30 years old, according to The Los Angeles Times.
Afghan officials have solicited help from NATO’s International Security Assistance Force to conduct a rescue operation, while the Western military said that it had sent fixed-wing aircraft and two helicopters to the area where the plane was believed to have been lost.
The majority of the Western forces that are stationed in the Kunduz province are German, according to The Los Angeles Times.
Attorney Gordon JohnsonPast Chair Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group, American Association of Justice
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