A private passenger plane headed for Moscow crashed in the north of Afghanistan. There were six people on board, two of them Russians.
A Russian plane crashed in Afghanistan
The Falcon 10 was a chartered medical evacuation flight flying from Thailand's Utapao Airport in Pattaya to Moscow via India and Uzbekistan.
On board was a bedridden patient in serious condition, a citizen of Russia, who was being transported from one of the hospitals in Pattaya to Russia. She was accompanied by her husband, a private entrepreneur, also a citizen of Russia, who paid for the flight, — reports the Russian media RIA with reference to a source at Utapao International Airport in Thailand.
Several Russian media reported that the passengers were a married couple from Volgodonsk in southern Russia.
About 25 minutes before the plane disappeared from radar screens, the pilot warned that he had run out of fuel and that the plane would try to land at an airport in Tajikistan. This was reported by the Russian Telegeram-channel SHOT citing an unnamed source.
Then the pilot reported the shutdown of one engine, and then the second. The plane's passenger list, published by SHOT, shows that the crew were also Russian citizens.
Russian authorities said the French-made plane was manufactured in 1978.
Afghan police have already said they have received reports of a disaster in the remote Badakhshan mountain region in the far north of Afghanistan. Rescuers will need 12 hours to reach the crash site.
Civil aviation in the Russian Federation is on the verge of collapse
In November 2023, the DUI reported that the sanctions had led to a dire state of Russian civil aviation.
Secret official documents of the Federal Air Transport Agency ("Rosaviation") indicate that in the first 9 months of 2023, 150 cases of technical malfunctions of aircraft were documented in the Russian Federation.
For the same period in 2022, 50 such incidents were recorded.
The most problematic areas of Russian aviation remain engines and chassis, as well as other important elements: hydraulic systems, flaps and software.
