KABUL – Moscow-bound charter plane with six people on board crashed in Badakhshan province of Afghanistan last night.
As per the media report, the French-made Dassault Falcon 10 jet was a charter ambulance travelling from India to Russia via Uzbekistan with four crew members and two passengers on board.
As per the Russian aviation officials, the plane had disappeared from radar over Afghanistan.
Afghan police confirmed receiving information of a crash in Badakhshan province.
The crash had taken place overnight in a remote, mountainous region of Badakhshan in north Afghanistan, a provincial police spokesperson said in a statement.
He said there were no confirmed details on the cause of the crash or casualties.
India’s civil aviation authority has clarified that the plane was not a scheduled commercial flight or an Indian chartered aircraft.
The unfortunate plane crash that has just occurred in Afghanistan is neither an Indian Scheduled Aircraft nor a Non Scheduled (NSOP)/Charter aircraft. It is a Moroccan registered small aircraft. More details are awaited.
— MoCA_GoI (@MoCA_GoI) January 21, 2024
“The unfortunate plane crash that has just occurred in Afghanistan is neither an Indian Scheduled Aircraft nor a Non-Scheduled (NSOP)/Charter aircraft. It is a Moroccan-registered small aircraft. More details are awaited,” reads a post shared by the Indian Ministry of Civil Aviation micro-blogging platform X (former Twitter).
