Search for plane resumes

SALANG PASS, Afghanistan - Relatives of passengers aboard an Afghan plane that crashed with 44 on board joined a desperate search for the wreckage on Tuesday as government and NATO rescue helicopters whirred overhead.

The plane, operated by a private Afghan airline, was traveling from Kunduz to Kabul when it crashed Monday. Air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane when it was about 85 kilometers north of Kabul, prompting rescue workers to rush to the Salang Pass, a major route through the Hindu Kush mountains that connects the capital to the north.

Aerial searches by the Afghan government and the international coalition, hampered by dense fog and darkness on Monday night, resumed at dawn without locating the crash.