A Russian chartered flight carrying six people has gone missing from radar screens over Afghanistan following reports by local police of a crash on Saturday night.
Russian aviation authorities confirmed in a statement the plane that went missing was a chartered ambulance plane travelling from India to Moscow via Uzbekistan.
It was a French-made Dassault Falcon 10 jet manufactured in 1978, it said.
Russian aviation’s announcement coincides with reports from northern Afghanistan, where police in Badakhshan province stated that a plane crashed late Saturday night, according to a provincial police spokesperson.
India’s civil aviation authority stated that the incident involved a plane crash that was neither a scheduled commercial flight nor an Indian chartered aircraft amid reports that it was an Indian plane.
The Indian authorities said that they are awaiting further details.
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