According to Russian aviation authorities, a Russian-registered plane with six people on board vanished from radar screens over Afghanistan. This disappearance was reported after local Afghan police said they had received crash reports. The authorities said the plane was a charter ambulance flight traveling from India, via Uzbekistan to Moscow on a French-made Dassault Aviation Falcon 10 jet produced in 1978.
The provincial police in northern Afghanistan received reports of a plane crash in Badakhshan province. A spokesperson for Badakhshan’s provincial government mentioned that a team had been dispatched to the crash site in a remote area over 200 km from the provincial capital Fayzabad. It was estimated to take the team 12 hours to reach the area.
The Afghan provincial police spokesperson stated that the crash occurred overnight in a remote, mountainous region of Badakhshan in Afghanistan’s far north. There are no confirmed details on the type of plane, cause of the crash, or casualties. India’s civil aviation authority clarified that the plane crash was not a scheduled commercial flight or an Indian chartered aircraft and that “more details are awaited.”
The aircraft manufacturer Dassault did not provide a comment immediately upon request. The situation is still developing and more details are awaited.
Reporting by Maria Ponnezhath in Bengaluru, Charlotte Greenfield in Islamabad, Mohammad Yunus Yawar in Kabul, and Aditi Shah in Delhi. This news will continue to be updated as more information becomes available. Our thoughts are with those involved in this tragic incident.
