Search teams today reached the remote Afghan mountain site where a commercial airliner crashed this week and found no sign of survivors among the 44 people aboard.

Search planes have spotted the tail of a commercial airliner that disappeared over Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush mountains with 44 people on board, officials said today.

Insurgents launched a brazen pre-dawn assault today against the giant US-run Bagram Air Field, the second Taliban strike at Nato forces in and around the capital in as many days.

Up 44 people are missing after a passenger plane crashed in a remote area of Afghanistan today.