Helping Out

The NTSB has sent a team to the site of the Afghan crash.

KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- The U.S.'s National Transportation Safety Board says it has sent a team to Afghanistan to aid the investigation of last week's plane crash southwest of Kabul.

All 104 passengers and crew died when the Kam Air Boeing 737-200, en route from Herat to Kabul, crashed in mountainous terrain after reportedly being diverted from Kabul due to a snowstorm.

Senior safety board investigator Robert Benzon will lead the five-person team, the NTSB said in a statement Tuesday.

The United States is involved because that is where the plane was made.

A very unfortunate incident, indeed. Godspeed, NTSB folks.