It is reported by Reuters, citing a representative of the US defense department.

According to the interlocutor of the agency, the military had to make several attempts to extract the remains due to difficult geographical and weather conditions. It is specified that it was also not possible to approach the place of the crash immediately because of the confrontation between the Taliban militants *.

On January 27, media reported that a plane crashed in eastern Afghanistan near Deh Yak. At the same time, the country's authorities noted that "the plane crashed in Ghazni belonged to a foreign airline."

After that, the US military confirmed that in the Afghan province of Ghazni, a US plane Bombardier E-11A crashed.

* "Taliban" - the organization was recognized as terrorist by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of February 14, 2003 .