9 feared dead in cargo plane crash in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Russian-designed Ilyushin-76 cargo plane chartered by the U.S. military crashed into a mountaintop in eastern Afghanistan, officials said today, as fears rose for the fate of its nine-member crew. The plane hit a mountain peak late Tuesday night, around 11 p.m., said Sayed Aleem Agha, the top official in Sayagred district of Parwan province, north of Kabul.