Four survivors found after Russian jet crashed in Afghanistan
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Sputnik reports that the four survivors were safely evacuated to a hospital in the Kof Ab district in Afghanistan.
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member of the Air Force crash investigation team surveys the tail section of the Air Force C-130 that crashed in Andrieski August 20, 1996 (AP - Representative Image)
After a private Russian jet conducted a flight from Thailand to Russia, which crashed in northeastern Afghanistan, it was reported that four passengers aboard had survived the crash.
The four survivors were safely evacuated, according to Afghan broadcaster Hurriyat.
The survivors were taken to the center of the Kof Ab district early in the morning, the report added.
Commenting on the crash, representatives of the Afghan Aviation and Transport Ministry said that the crashed plane was not supposed to fly through the country's airspace, but had to deviate from the planned course due to technical issues that arose during the flight, the broadcaster reported.
A Russian couple
Earlier, Russian aviation authorities reported that there were two passengers and four crew members on board the charter ambulance flight, which was en route from Utapao Airport, in Thailand, to Moscow via India and then Uzbekistan.
Rescuers had reached the crash site in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province, approximately 250km northeast of Kabul, on Sunday. Astonishingly, the four survivors were found at the scene, with varying degrees of injuries.
RIA Novosti reported that the plane was carrying a Russian woman in serious condition from a hospital to Russia, accompanied by her husband, an entrepreneur. Media outlets in Russia identified the passengers as a couple from Volgodonsk in southern Russia. The crew members were also Russian nationals.
According to reports, the pilot of the Dassault Aviation Falcon 10, a Russian-registered, French-made jet manufactured in 1978, had warned of low fuel. The pilot communicated an attempt to land at an airport in Tajikistan after one engine stopped, followed by the second. Twenty-five minutes after the distress call, the plane vanished from radar screens.
