Ariana Airlines Plane Crashes In Afghanistan With 83 People On Board

The Daily Mirror is reporting that a state-owned Ariana Afghan Airlines plane crashed Monday in Afghanistan’s central province of Ghazni. 

🔴#BREAKING Ariana airlines passenger plane crash in the Deh Yak district of #Ghazni province. The #Taliban are already according to several sources on the crash site. #Afghanistan
Via: @bsarwary pic.twitter.com/lAtYzFnKD7

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Arif Noori, the spokesman for the governor of Ghazni Province, told Reuters that “a Boeing plane belonging to the Ariana Afghan Airline, has crashed in the Sado Khel area of Deh Yak district of Ghazni province around 1:10 p.m. local time.”

#Ariana Afghan Airlines Boeing 737-470 flight AFG507A crashed minutes after take off from #Kabul pic.twitter.com/KUJw8F0dTi

— Manu Gómez (@GDarkconrad) January 27, 2020

Local media said 83 people were on board, but at this moment, there’s no official report on the fate of the crew and passengers.

There are conflicting reports at the moment, CBS’ Ahmad Mukhtar tweets that Ariana Airlines rejects the reports of a crash and insists all flights are operating normally. 

In the meantime, Ariana airline in a facebook post rejects the reports of crash and says all flights operating normal pic.twitter.com/gnUzukZgvv

— Ahmad Mukhtar (@AhMukhtar) January 27, 2020