Kabul-Afghanistan Plane Crash: Initial Reports and Conflicting Information About Indian Passenger Plane

2024-01-21 09:52:30

Kabul-Afghanistan plane crash accident. Initial information is that the accident happened in the Topkhana mountains in Afghanistan. It is reported that the DF10, a small plane registered in Morocco, crashed. No further details of the accident have been released. The accident happened near Kuran-Munjan and Sibak districts of Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province, which shares borders with China, Tajikistan and Pakistan.

An Afghan news agency reported that an Indian passenger plane had crashed, but the Directorate of Civil Aviation (DGCA) denied it. The Afghan news agency first reported that an Indian passenger plane bound for the Russian capital Moscow crashed in the Topkhana mountains.

Immediately after this, the DGCA and the Indian Ministry of Aviation came forward rejecting the report. The aviation ministry also confirmed that there were no Indians on board the plane that crashed. It is indicated that the plane, which was traveling in the wrong direction, crashed into the mountains.

At the same time, Russia came forward stating that the chartered flight that had departed from India was missing. Russian aviation authorities said in a statement that they had lost contact with a chartered ambulance traveling from India via Uzbekistan to Moscow with six people on board, Reuters reported.