The US military said a surveillance plane crashed in eastern Afghanistan on Monday.

Videos shared on social media showed the wreckage of a US Air Force Bombardier E-11A.

It was thought to be carrying about half a dozen passengers.

The plane was first thought to be a commercial aircraft operated by Ariana Afghan Airlines.

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A US Air Force surveillance plane crashed in eastern Afghanistan on Monday.

A US military official told Fox News' Lucas Tomlinson it was a Bombardier E-11A airborne communications plane.

It crashed in Taliban-controlled territory at 1:10 p.m. local time.

It was unclear how many people were on the plane or whether there were any survivors.

A statement from a Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, said that all passengers, which he claimed included high-ranking CIA officers, were killed.

Tariq Ghazniwal, a local journalist, told The Associated Press he saw two bodies lying beside the aircraft.

—Ab Qadir Sediqi (@qadir_sediqi) January 27, 2020

The plane was at first thought to be an Ariana Afghan Airlines commercial aircraft.

Arif Noori, a spokesman for the governor of the Ghazni province, initially told Reuters that a Boeing plane belonging to the airline crashed in the Deh Yak district of the province.

A video purporting to show the wreckage of a US Air Force Bombardier E-11A. Twitter/Badr-ul-huda

Aviation experts and sleuths combed purported footage and images of the crash on social media and found that the plane was a US military Bombardier E-11A.

The US military later confirmed their suspicions.

The E-11A is used for electronic surveillance over Afghanistan, according to the AP.

Ariana Afghan Airlines had denied reports of its involvement in the crash in a Facebook post.