A Russian charter ambulance carrying six passengers crashes over Afghanistan while it is flying from India

GG News Bureau

New Delhi, 21th Jan. Following allegations of a crash from local Afghan police, a Russian-registered aircraft with six persons believed to be on board vanished from radar screens over Afghanistan the previous evening, according to Russian aviation officials, who made the announcement on Sunday.

The aircraft, a 1978 French-built Dassault Falcon 10 jet, was a charter ambulance flight from India to Moscow via Uzbekistan, according to a statement from a Russian aviation official.

According to a regional police official on Sunday, police in northern Afghanistan received reports of a jet crash in Badakhshan province. The incident was not a regularly scheduled commercial flight or an aircraft chartered by India, according to the country’s civil aviation authorities, which added that “more details are awaited.”

In a statement, the provincial police spokeswoman for Afghanistan stated that the accident happened during night in the isolated, mountainous Badakhshan region in the country’s far north.

He said that the type of plane, the reason for the crash, and the number of casualties were all unconfirmed.