Four individuals survived and two are unaccounted for after a Russian airplane crashed in mountainous northeastern Afghanistan, the air transport company Rosaviatsia mentioned Sunday.
The Falcon 10 enterprise jet was believed to be carrying six individuals on a hospital flight from India to Uzbekistan and Russia earlier than communication was misplaced on Saturday night.
“Of the six individuals on board the plane, tentatively, 4 are alive. They have varied accidents. The destiny of two individuals is being clarified,” Rosaviatsia mentioned, citing the Russian embassy in Afghanistan.
The RIA Novosti information company mentioned two passengers have been Russians, one who was critically ailing, and the opposite her husband who had paid for the flight.
The two-engine airplane was constructed by France’s Dassault in 1978 and owned by an organization known as Athletic Group and a non-public particular person.
A provincial authorities official in Afghanistan informed AFP the plane got here down in Badakhshan province, which borders China, Tajikistan and Pakistan.
The space of the crash is eight hours by street from the provincial capital Faizabad, mentioned Zabihullah Amiri, head of the provincial info division.
Russian investigators introduced the opening of a probe into the reason for the crash.
The mighty Hindu Kush mountain vary cuts via the province, which is house to Afghanistan’s highest peak, Mount Noshaq, at 7,492 meters (24,580 toes) tall.