The police in Northern Afghanistan received reports of a plane crash in Badakhshan province, a provincial police spokesman said on Sunday.
This comes amid reports of the disappearance of a Russia-registered plane over Afghanistan.
Disappeared from radar
Russian aviation authorities said on Sunday a Russian-registered plane with six people, four crew members and two passengers, thought to be on board disappeared from radar screens over Afghanistan the previous night after local Afghan police said they had received reports of a crash.
Russian aviation authorities said in a statement the plane was a charter ambulance flight traveling from India, via Uzbekistan to Moscow on a French-made Dassault AM.PA Falcon 10 jet manufactured in 1978.
Police in northern Afghanistan received reports of a plane crash in Badakhshan province, a provincial police spokesperson said on Sunday.
India’s civil aviation authority said that the plane crash was not a scheduled commercial flight or an Indian chartered aircraft and that “more details are awaited.”
Zabihullah Amiri, a spokesperson for Badakhshan’s provincial government, told Reuters a team had been sent to the location of the crash, but it was a remote area more than 200 km (124 miles) from the provincial capital Fayzabad and would take the team 12 hours to reach.
The Afghan provincial police spokesperson said in a statement the crash had taken place overnight in a remote, mountainous region of Badakhshan in Afghanistan‘s far north.
He said there were no confirmed details on the type of plane, cause of the crash or casualties.
Two of the passengers were Russian nationals
Two Russian citizens were passengers on a charter flight bound for Moscow that disappeared over Afghanistan, Russia’s state-run TASS news agency said on Sunday, citing a source “in the operational services.”
A manifest list for the plane, which named everyone on board and which was published by the SHOT news outlet, appeared to show that the crew were Russian nationals too.
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