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 said in a statement that the plane was chartered for an ambulance flight and was heading to Moscow from India via Uzbekistan. It is a French-made Dassault Falcon 10, manufactured in 1978.
A spokesman for the police in Badakhshan province in northern Afghanistan said earlier on Sunday that police had received reports of a plane crash in the province.
Zabiullah Amiri, a spokesman for the Badakhshan provincial government, told Reuters that a team had been sent to the site of the incident but noted that it was a remote area more than 200 km (125 miles) from the provincial capital Faizabad and would take the team 12 hours to reach it.
The crash occurred overnight in a remote mountainous area of the province, located in the far north of Afghanistan, Badakhshan police spokesman said in a statement.
He added that there were no confirmed details about the type of plane, the cause of the crash, or the dead and injured.
The Indian Civil Aviation Authority denied that the plane crash was a scheduled commercial flight or a chartered Indian aircraft, and said it was “waiting for further details.”