Preliminary reasons for the crash of a Russian aircraft in Afghanistan are known

Pajhwok News and Tolo News reported the disappearance of a passenger plane flying from India in the mountainous areas of Afghanistan's Badakhshan province. Later, Rosaviatsia specified that the aircraft belonged to the Russian company Athletic Group LLC and a private person. The aircraft was on a chartered sanitary flight between Gaya (India) - Tashkent (Uzbekistan) - Zhukovsky (Russia). According to the agency, there were four crew members and two passengers on board.

According to the media, for unknown reasons the plane veered off course and crashed into Topkhan Mountain in Vakhan district. It is noteworthy that before the crash, the pilot tried to report technical problems.

SHOT published a list of passengers of the crashed plane, including two passengers - Anna Evsyukova (64) and Anatoly Evsyukov (65) - as well as four crew members - Dmitry Belyakov (41), Arkady Grachev (42), Igor Syvorotkin (26) and Pavel Popov (44).

Telegram channel Aviaspotter writes that the last time the plane was displayed on radar was when approaching the Afghan border, and before that the pilots reported technical problems and were about to make an unscheduled landing when crossing the border with Tajikistan. TASS and REN TV sources said that the cause of the crash, according to preliminary data, was the failure of two engines.

As journalist Denis Kazansky commented, it was bound to happen sooner or later. "After the imposition of sanctions, Russian planes broke down and made emergency landings almost every week. This is the first one that didn't make it. There were six people on board the plane. It was a charter flight for Gazprom. Apparently, some VIPs died," the journalist speculated.

The Russian Federation said that Falcon 10 with registration number RA-09011 was manufactured by the French company Dassault Aviation in 1978. The aircraft belonged to Athletic Group, a company involved in air transport, retail and fitness centres.