A Russian Falcon crashed in Afghanistan, four survivors were found, two were missing.

The consequences of the crash have not yet been fully established. Four people were found alive and two others were missing on Sunday after a Russian Falcon plane crashed in a mountainous area in northeastern Afghanistan, the Federal Air Transport Agency said.

“Local ground search and rescue service detected the Falcon 10 aircraft,” Rosaviation first indicated in the final press release. Of the six people on board the plane, four are presumably alive (received various injuries), the fate of two people is being established. “The Afghan authorities, for their part, confirmed this assessment. “The pilot has been found,” we read in a press release from the Afghan Ministry of Transport and Aviation on X (formerly Twitter). “According to the pilot, four people on board, including himself, are alive. The search team (…) is looking for the remaining people,” he continued.

According to the Federal Air Transport Agency, the Falcon 10, registered in Russia and manufactured in 1978 by the French group Dassault Aviation, “stopped communicating and disappeared from radar screens” on Saturday evening over Afghanistan. According to the source, the business jet “belongs to Athletic Group LLC and a private individual.

In the mountains

At the time of the crash, “the plane was performing a charter medical flight on the route Gaya (India) – Tashkent (Uzbekistan) – Zhukovsky (Russia),” the Federal Air Transport Agency clarified. According to the Russian news agency Ria Novosti, the plane was on a private flight and on board were a “bedridden patient in serious condition” and her husband, who paid for the flight, and these two, according to this source, are Russian citizens. Russia’s Investigative Committee said it was starting an investigation.

Earlier on Sunday, Zabihullah Amiri, spokesman for Afghanistan’s Badakhshan Province Information Department, for his part, explained to AFP that he “was informed by the villagers” that a plane had crashed in the area, which borders Tajikistan, China and Afghanistan. Pakistan. The accident occurred in a remote mountainous area of ​​this province, crossed by the Hindu Kutch massif, the peaks of which reach more than 7,000 meters. Mr Amiri said the incident site was “about eight hours’ drive” from the provincial capital Faizabad.