WASHINGTON — Two sets of remains have been recovered at the site where an American military plane crashed in Taliban-controlled territory outside Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, American military officials said, after a day in which United States forces struggled to get to the site.

American officials had indicated on Monday that they thought the two-person crew of the plane had most likely not survived the crash, which occurred in the district of Deh Yak in Ghazni Province during a day of harsh weather.

Officials in Ghazni said the effort to recover the remains had begun Monday evening, but forces had not been able to retrieve the bodies until Tuesday.

“Since yesterday, the area has been under the control of the foreign air force,” Nasir Ahmad Faqiri, the chief of the Ghazni provincial council, said on Tuesday afternoon. “An hour ago, the foreign air forces got into the incident site and took two bodies out.”