Russian aviation authorities announced on Sunday that a Russian-registered plane carrying six passengers had disappeared from radar screens over Afghanistan. Reports indicated that Afghan police received information about a crash in Badakhshan province. The aircraft in question was a charter ambulance flight traveling from India to Moscow via Uzbekistan. It was a French-made Dassault Falcon 10 jet manufactured in 1978 and had four crew members and two passengers on board.
Contrary to initial confusion, India’s civil aviation authority clarified that the plane crash was not a scheduled commercial flight or an Indian-chartered aircraft. The Indian Ministry of Civil Aviation stated on X (formerly known as Twitter) that the unfortunate incident involved a Moroccan registered small aircraft, not affiliated with India. More details on the crash are awaited.
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
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According to the Afghan provincial police spokesperson, the crash occurred overnight in a remote, mountainous region of Badakhshan in Afghanistan’s far north. Local residents reported the incident in the morning, but there were no confirmed details regarding the cause of the crash or casualties.
The aircraft manufacturer, Dassault, did not immediately respond to a request for comment outside normal business hours. The disappearance of the Russian-registered plane raises concerns about the safety of the passengers and the circumstances surrounding the incident, awaiting further information to shed light on the situation.
