Lost and Found

There's bad news out of Afghanistan this morning.

KABUL, Afghanistan — NATO and Afghan forces suspended their ground and air search as darkness closed in Friday for an Afghan passenger jet carrying 104 people after it disappeared from radar screens during a snowstorm near the mountain-ringed capital.

NATO and Afghan Officials denied statements from Turkish officials that parts of the wreckage had been located 20 miles southeast of Kabul, and they said the search would resume Saturday.

The Kam Air Boeing 737-200 took off Thursday from the western Afghan city of Herat bound for Kabul, but was unable to land because of bad weather. The airline initially said the plane was diverted to neighboring Pakistan, but officials there said it never entered their airspace.

This is updated from what the BBC claimed earlier, as we see from this snipet.

Nato troops searching for a missing Afghan airliner with 104 passengers on board have suspended the operation until the morning.

Afghan and Nato sources have denied earlier reports that the wreckage of the plane had been found.

Speaking to the BBC, a spokesman for the Afghan Defence Ministry said that no crash site had yet been discovered.

"We have not found a single piece of the plane or wreckage," Gen Zaher Azimi told BBC News.