阿富汗一民航飛機墜毀 機上43人生死不明

Commercial Airline Crashes In Afghanistan

A commercial plane carrying 43 people crashed Monday morning while passing through bad weather over a high mountain range north of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan.
一架載有43人的民航飛機周一早間在飛越阿富汗首都喀布爾北部高山時墜毀。當時的天氣條件極其惡劣。

There was no immediate word on casualties, and heavy cloud cover was hindering a joint Afghan and NATO search effort.
目前尚沒有傷亡的報導。厚重的云層令阿富汗與北約(NATO)的聯(lián)合搜救行動受阻。

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The Pamir Airways flight took off at 8:30 a.m. from the northern provincial capital of Kunduz and crashed somewhere near the 12,700-foot Salang Pass, a major thoroughfare connecting Kabul with Afghanistan's north.
這架帕米爾航空公司(Pamir Airways)的航班于早上8點30分從阿富汗北部省份昆都茲(Kunduz)的首府起飛，在海拔12,700英尺的薩朗隘口(Salang Pass)附近墜毀。薩朗隘口是連接喀布爾和阿富汗北部地區(qū)的主要通道。

The crash appears to be the worst in Afghanistan since 2005, when another domestic carrier, Kam Air, crashed in the mountains east of Kabul, killing all 104 passengers and crew on board. Bad weather contributed to that crash, and aviation officials said the crew may have been trying to save on fuel by flying through a blinding snowstorm.
此次墜機可能是2005年以來阿富汗發(fā)生的最嚴重的一起飛機失事。2005年，另外一個國內(nèi)航空公司卡姆航空(Kam Air)的一架飛機在喀布爾以東群山中墜毀，機上104名乘客和機組人員無一人生還。那次墜機事件是由惡劣的天氣造成的，航空管理官員說，機組人員可能曾試圖穿過暴風雪以節(jié)省燃油。

Six or seven foreigners were among the 38 passengers on the flight that crashed Monday, along with five crew members, according to Nangialai Qalatwal, spokesman for the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Transport.
據(jù)阿富汗民航和交通部(Ministry of Civil Aviation and Transport)發(fā)言人夸拉特瓦(Nangialai Qalatwa)說，周一墜毀的飛機上有38名乘客，其中有六或七名外國人，另有五名機組人員。

'It seems that bad weather was the cause of the crash,' Qalatwal said but rescuers had not yet reached the wreckage.
夸拉特瓦說，看起來惡劣的天氣是造成飛機失事的原因。不過救援人員尚未到達飛機失事地點。

Foreign aid workers and U.N. staff have been advised to avoid Pamir Airways due to doubts about its safety record.
鑒于對帕米爾航空公司安全紀錄的懷疑，外國救援人員和聯(lián)合國工作人員被建議不要乘坐該航空公司的航班。

Based in Kabul, Pamir started operations in 1995. It has daily flights to major Afghan cities and also operates flights to Dubai and to Saudi Arabia for the Hajj pilgrimage. -By Alan Cullison, The Wall Street Journal; 709 5234 0805; [email protected]
帕米爾航空公司位于喀布爾，于1995年開始運營。該公司有飛往阿富汗主要城市的每日航班，還運營飛往迪拜和沙特阿拉伯的航班以方便伊斯蘭朝圣。