The post script to flying Ariana Airlines (the National Carrier of Afghanistan) is that losing one bag of 18 is not that big of deal, in fact in percentage terms you would expect 1 bag of 18 to go missing.
However we arrived to find that in fact not one bag arrived, in fact not one bag of the entire plane load of people made it to kabul, they just seemed to have neglected loading one single bag without informing anyone until we arrived, despite the fact that surely someone must of told the pilot that his hold was empty of luggage.
The bags did come on a later flight 7 hours later, no doubt that the plane was probably empty of passengers but full of bags.
Mal
Kabul