Russian aviation authorities said in a statement the plane was a charter ambulance flight traveling from India, via Uzbekistan to Moscow on a French-made Dassault Falcon 10 jet manufactured in 1978
Russian aviation authorities said on Sunday a Russian-registered planes with six people thought to be on board disappeared from radar screens over Afghanistan the previous night, after local Afghan police said they had received reports of a crash.
Russian aviation authorities said in a statement the plane was a charter ambulance flight traveling from India, via Uzbekistan to Moscow on a French-made Dassault Falcon 10 jet manufactured in 1978. Police in northern Afghanistan received reports of a plane crash in Badakhshan province, a provincial police spokesperson said on Sunday.
India’s civil aviation authority said that the plane crash was not a scheduled commercial flight or an Indian chartered aircraft and that “more details are awaited.”
A plane that crashed in mountainous northeastern Afghanistan on Sunday is not Indian, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has confirmed.
“The unfortunate plane crash that has just occurred in Afghanistan is neither an Indian Scheduled Aircraft nor a Non-Scheduled (NSOP)/Charter aircraft. It is a Moroccan-registered small aircraft. More details are awaited,” the DGCA has said.
The aircraft was an air ambulance and was flying from Thailand to Moscow and did refuelling at Gaya Airport,” said a senior MoCA official.
According to Afghan media, a plane bound for Moscow crashed in the Wakhan region of Badakhshan in Afghanistan.
The head of information and culture for the Taliban in Badakhshan has confirmed the incident, revealing that the passenger plane went down in the Topkhane Mountain, spanning across the Kuran-Manjan and Zibak districts within the province.
There were two pilots and four passengers on the aircraft, as per reports.
As of the current moment, official sources have not disclosed information regarding casualties or the cause of the crash.
The Taliban’s police command in Badakhshan has reported that the plane, which disappeared from radar the night before, crashed in the elevated mountains of the Topkhana area.
Afghan’s AMU TV stated that this region covers the Zibak and Kuran-Munjan districts of the province.
The Afghan provincial police spokesperson said in a statement the crash had taken place overnight in a remote, mountainous region of Badakhshan in Afghanistan’s far north.
He said there were no confirmed details on the type of plane, cause of the crash or casualties.
Agencies