Russian aviation authorities said Sunday that a Russian-registered plane with six people on board disappeared from radar screens over Afghanistan the night before, after local Afghan police said they had received a report of the crash.
Russian aviation authorities said in a statement that the plane, a French-made Dassault Aviation Falcon 10 jet built in 1978, was on a chartered ambulance flight from India to Moscow via Uzbekistan.
Police in northern Afghanistan received a report of a plane crash in Badakhshan province, a provincial police spokesperson said on Sunday.
Zabihullah Amiri, a spokesperson for the Badakhshan provincial government, told Reuters that a team had been dispatched to the scene of the accident, but it would take 12 hours for the team to arrive in the remote area, more than 194 miles from the provincial capital Faizabad. Ta.
A spokesman for Afghanistan's provincial police said in a statement that the accident occurred overnight in a remote mountainous region of Badakhshan in Afghanistan's far north.
He said details such as the type of plane, cause of the crash and casualties have not been confirmed.
India's civil aviation authority said the plane crash was not a scheduled passenger flight or an Indian chartered flight, and said “further details are awaited.”
Aircraft maker Dassault did not immediately respond to a request for comment outside of normal business hours.
