Four people were found alive, while two others remained missing on Sunday after a Russian Falcon plane crashed in a mountainous area of northeastern Afghanistan, Russia's Federal Civil Aviation Agency said , Rossaviatsia.
“
The local ground search and rescue service found the Falcon 10 plane
,” Rossaviatsia first indicated in a final press release.
“
Of the six people who were on board the plane, four are estimated to be alive (they suffer from various injuries), and the fate of two people is being verified
,” Rossaviatsia continued.
The Afghan authorities have also confirmed this toll on their side.
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The pilot has been found
,” we can read in a press release from the Afghan Ministry of Transport and Aviation on X (formerly Twitter).
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According to the pilot, four people on board, including him, are alive.
The search team (...) is looking for the other people
,” he continued.
According to Rossaviatsia, a Falcon 10 plane registered in Russia had “
stopped communicating and disappeared from radar screens
” on Saturday evening over Afghanistan.
The business jet “
belongs to Athletic Group LLC and an individual
,” according to this source.
Medical flight
At the time of the accident, "
the plane was carrying out a chartered medical flight between Gaya (India) - Tashkent (Uzbekistan) - Zhukovskyi (Russia)
", specified Rossaviatsia.
According to the Russian news agency Ria Novosti, the plane was carrying out a private flight with on board a “
bedridden patient in serious condition
” and her husband who had paid for the flight, these two people being Russian citizens according to this source .
The Russian Investigative Committee has indicated that it is opening an investigation.
Earlier on Sunday, an official from the Information Department of Badakhshan province in Afghanistan, Zabihullah Amiri, for his part explained to AFP that he had "been
informed by villagers
" that a plane had crashed in this area. region, bordering Tajikistan, China and Pakistan.
The accident occurred in a mountainous area, difficult to access, of this province crossed by the Hindu Kouch massif, with peaks reaching more than 7,000 meters.
The accident area “
is about an eight-hour drive
” from the provincial capital of Faizabad, Zabihullah Amiri said.