| May 10, 2005 |
| By: Associated Press |
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| Authorities have grounded the aging planes of an Afghan airline, an official said Tuesday, three months after one of its jets crashed into a mountaintop killing 104 people in the country's worst aviation disaster.
Transport Ministry officials have banned Kam Air from using two Antonov An-24 propellor planes deployed on domestic routes because they were "very old," ministry official Abdul Qayum Basharyar said. He didn't say how old the planes were, but the Soviet-made aircraft has been out of production since the late 1970s.
The airline can continue to operate its two remaining planes, Basharyar said, a Boeing 737 and a Boeing 767 which fly between Kabul and Dubai.
Afghan and U.S. experts have yet to release any results of their investigation into the Feb. 3 crash of another 737 as it approached Kabul from the western city of Herat during a snowstorm.
Bad weather, snow and land mines at the crash site and the need for DNA testing have slowed the recovery and identification of the victims' remains. Several, including some of the 27 foreigners who died, have yet to be identified.
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