A chartered flight from India to Moscow via Uzbekistan has crashed in the Badakhshan Province of Afghanistan, news agency Reuters reported on Sunday. At least six people are presumed to be on board.
According to Russian aviation authorities, it was a chartered ambulance flight traveling from India via Uzbekistan to Moscow on a French-made Dassault Falcon 10 jet manufactured in 1978.
The Civil Aviation Ministry of India has clarified that the aircraft was neither an “Indian Scheduled Aircraft nor a Non Scheduled (NSOP)/Chartered aircraft”. It is a Moroccan-registered small aircraft, the ministry said in a statement on X, formerly known as Twitter.
The plane crash took place in a remote mountainous region of Badakhshan in the northernmost region of Afghanistan last night, the local police was quoted as saying by Reuters on Sunday.
The police are yet to confirm the cause of the crash or casualties.
