[Excerpt: Kam Air opened as Afghanistan's only private airline in November 2003. It flies leased aircraft between Kabul and Dubai and Istanbul and operates several domestic routes.] _http://64.94.180.107/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=VNGQ4QN31GE1WCRBAE0CFFA?typ e=worldNews&storyID=7534633_ (http://64.94.180.107/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=VNGQ4QN31GE1WCRBAE0CFFA?type=worldNews&storyID=7534633) Afghan Plane Missing with 104 on Board Thu Feb 3, 2005 10:02 PM ET KABUL (Reuters) - An Afghan passenger plane with 104 people on board was missing on Friday after being turned away from Kabul airport the previous day due to a snow storm, an airline official said. The Boeing 737 belonging to a private airline, Kam Air, was on a flight from the western city of Herat to Kabul on Thursday, said Atilla Kamgar, the airline's financial controller. The plane contacted Peshawar airport about an hour after it was turned away from Kabul airport at about 4:00 p.m. (6:30 a.m. EST) because of heavy snow that had closed the airport, he said. "It was given clearance to land, but it never arrived," Kamgar told Reuters. "Lahore airport earlier reported to us that it had landed in Peshawar, then when we contacted Peshawar they told us it had not landed." A U.S. military spokesman said the plane had been reported missing to them. It had not landed at any U.S.-led coalition airfields in Afghanistan. An air traffic controller in Peshawar said he was not authorized to speak to the media, while a controller in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore said he had heard nothing. "We have no idea about this aircraft. We have heard nothing about it," he said. An air traffic controller in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, and other Pakistani civil aviation officials also said they had no knowledge of the aircraft. Kam Air opened as Afghanistan's only private airline in November 2003. It flies leased aircraft between Kabul and Dubai and Istanbul and operates several domestic routes. In September, an Antonov-24 operated by the airline slewed off the runway while landing at Kabul airport, slightly injuring some of the 27 passengers aboard, apparently after experiencing engine trouble. (Additional reporting by Aamir Ashraf in KARACHI and Tahir Ikram and David Brunnstrom in ISLAMABAD) enditem
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