2024-01-21T10:35:25+00:00
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/ Russian aviation authorities confirmed on Sunday that a Russian-registered plane believed to have six people on board disappeared from radar screens over Afghanistan last night, after Afghan police said they had received reports of a plane crash.
The Russian aviation authorities stated in a statement that the plane was chartered for an ambulance flight and was heading to Moscow from India via Uzbekistan. It was a French-made Dassault Falcon 10 in 1978.
A police spokesman for Badakhshan province in northern Afghanistan said earlier on Sunday that the police had received reports of a plane crash in the province.
Zabihullah Amiri, a spokesman for the Badakhshan provincial government, told Reuters that a team had been sent to the site of the accident, but pointed out that it was a remote area more than 200 kilometers away from Faizabad, the capital of the province, and it would take the team 12 hours to reach it.
The Badakhshan police spokesman added in a statement that the crash occurred during the night in a remote mountainous area in the province, located in the far north of Afghanistan.
He added that there were no confirmed details about the type of plane, the cause of the crash, or the dead and injured.
The Civil Aviation Authority of India denied that the plane crash occurred on a scheduled commercial flight or a chartered Indian plane, and said that it was “awaiting further details.”