An Afghan military jet was shot down by Uzbek air defences as it tried to violate the border, Uzbekistan's defence ministry claims.
The aircraft came down on Sunday after crossing the border into Uzbekistan, and its pilot ejected and survived, the Uzbek defence ministry was quoted as saying.
Footage posted on Twitter shows a bloodied man wearing a military uniform being given medical aid by a group of people, including some wearing military camouflage, as he lay on the floor.
Afghanistan is in total chaos with the Taliban seizing most of the country and swathes of the capital Kabul, with foreigners and locals desperately trying to flee.
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The jet crashed late on Sunday in Uzbekistan's southernmost Surxondaryo province adjacent to Afghanistan.
Earlier reports stated that two people were on board the jet and both had been hospitalised with injuries, though it remained unclear if others were with the pilot.
"Uzbekistan's air defence forces prevented an attempt by an Afghan military aircraft to illegally cross Uzbekistan's border," defence ministry spokesman Bahrom Zulfikorov said.
He did not say how many people were on board or whether they have survived the crash.
Russia's RIA news agency earlier on Monday cited Uzbekistan's defence ministry as saying the pilot had ejected and was injured.
On Sunday, Uzbekistan said it had detained 84 Afghan soldiers who had crossed the border and sought medical help.
Kabul's airport has been overrun by thousands of Afghan civilians who were desperately trying to board evacuation flights out of the country to escape Taliban rule.
Commercial flights have been halted at the airport, which was under the control of US troops, who were making sure US and allied diplomats and embassy staff were able to escape the fallen city.
At least five people were killed as civilians tried to board planes and blocked the runway. Reports claim they were killed by gunfire.
An American official said earlier that troops had fired in the air to deter people trying to force their way onto a military flight that was set to take US diplomats and embassy staff out of the fallen city.
Distressing video also appeared to show three stowaways plunging to their deaths from a US cargo plane as it took off from the airport. The men had been clinging to the plane's wheels.
Other videos showed a crowd running alongside a taxiing US military plane with several people clinging to its wheels, and a US Apache military helicopter swooping across a runway to clear people from the path of a plane.
As the situation deteriorated even further, hundreds more people arrived at the airport on Monday after hearing false rumours about via-free flights out of the country.
An American defence official told Reuters that the US had temporarily halted all evacuation flights to clear people who were on the runway.
British troops are racing against the clock to get people out of Afghanistan following the dramatic fall of the Western-backed government amid a rapid advance across the country by the Taliban.
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, who served in the Scots Guards, appeared to choke up as he spoke of his regret that “some people won’t get back”.
Speaking on LBC, Mr Wallace said: “It’s a really deep part of regret for me… look, some people won’t get back. Some people won’t get back and we will have to do our best in third countries to process those people.”
Asked why he felt the situation “so personally”, Mr Wallace replied: “Because I’m a soldier… because it’s sad and the West has done what it’s done, we have to do our very best to get people out and stand by our obligations and 20 years of sacrifice is what it is.”
The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said on Monday there would be “significant numbers flying out day by day” and although he could not put a number on how many British citizens were still in the country, he added: “We have reinforced our capabilities with 600 military personnel who are there to facilitate the removal of people with UK visas and British nationals.”
He said the British ambassador, Sir Laurie Bristow, was working from the airport in Kabul alongside Home Office staff, diplomatic workers, and the armed services, to process visas.
