How did a Russian private plane meet with an accident in Afghanistan? 6 passengers died

A Russian private plane met with an accident in a remote area of ​​Afghanistan. There were six people on this plane. The plane was last reported just south of the Pakistani city of Peshawar at around 1330 GMT on Saturday, but it later disappeared from radar. Later it was reported that it had crashed.

A Russian private plane has crashed in Zebak, a remote area of ​​Afghanistan. There were six people on this plane. The aircraft was operating as a charter ambulance flight en route from Gaya in the Indian state of Bihar to Tashkent, Uzbekistan and then to Moscow's Zhukovsky International Airport. The accident occurred Saturday in a mountainous area near the Zebak district of Badakhshan province, regional spokesman Zabihullah Amiri said. He said that a rescue team has been sent to the area.

Let us tell you that Zebak is about 250 kilometers (155 miles) north-east of Afghanistan's capital Kabul. This is a rural hilly area. Only several thousand people live here. The Badakhshan police chief's office also confirmed reports of the accident in a statement.

Russian civil aviation authorities in Moscow said the Dassault Falcon 10 went missing with four crew members and two passengers on board. Officials said the Russian-registered plane “stopped sending communication messages and disappeared from radar screens.”

Falcon 10 crashes in Jebak, Afghanistan

Russian officials said the plane belonged to Athletic Group LLC and a private individual. He also said that the Falcon 10 involved in the accident was built in the year 1978. A separate Taliban statement from Abdul Wahid Rayan, a spokesman for the Taliban's Ministry of Information and Culture, described the plane as "belonging to a Moroccan company." Indian civil aviation authorities have similarly described the aircraft as Moroccan-registered. There is still ambiguity regarding this. Ryan blamed “engine problems” for the accident.

Flightradar 24 tracking data for the plane showed that the plane's last known position was just south of the Pakistani city of Peshawar at about 1330 GMT on Saturday.

International carriers have largely evacuated Afghanistan since the Taliban took over the country in 2021. Those who fly briefly, They fly through Afghan airspace for only a few minutes while over the sparsely populated Wakhan Corridor in Badakhshan province, a narrow panhandle that runs out of the east of the country between Tajikistan and Pakistan.

Flight services were closed after Taliban came to power

Planes headed for the corridor turn sharply north around Peshawar and follow the Pakistani border before entering Afghanistan. Jebak is very close to the beginning of the Wakhan Corridor.

Afghanistan is landlocked in Central Asia. This is the most direct route for people traveling from India to Europe and America. Civil aviation came to a halt after the Taliban came to power, as ground controllers no longer managed the airspace. Particularly after the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine in 2014, authorities around the world ordered the grounding of their commercial aircraft.

Although countries have gradually eased those restrictions, there remains a fear about flying in the country. Two Emirati carriers recently resumed commercial flights to Kabul.