Two bodies were recovered after a U.S. military aircraft crashed in a Taliban-held area of Afghanistan.

A U.S. defense official told the Associated Press Tuesday that the two bodies recovered were the only people aboard the Air Force E-11A plane that crashed on Monday in the country’s Ghazni province. The identities of those killed have not yet been identified, pending notification to their families.

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