Four people survived and two are unaccounted for after a Russian plane crashed in mountainous northeastern Afghanistan, the air transport agency Rosaviatsia said Sunday. The Falcon 10 business jet was believed to be carrying six people on a hospital flight from India to Uzbekistan and Russia before communication was lost on Saturday evening. The Russian embassy in Afghanistan stated that four individuals are alive, but with various injuries, while the fate of two people is still unknown.
The RIA Novosti news agency reported that two passengers on the aircraft were Russians, one of whom was seriously ill, and the other was the husband who had paid for the flight. The province where the crash occurred is Badakhshan, which borders China, Tajikistan, and Pakistan. The crash site is approximately eight hours away by road from the provincial capital Faizabad.
The cause of the crash is currently under investigation by Russian authorities. The Hindu Kush mountain range, which is home to Afghanistan’s highest peak, Mount Noshaq, is located in the province where the incident took place.