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The Government of India has clarified that the aircraft that crashed in Afghanistan was not an Indian plane. In a social media post, the Ministry of Civil Aviation said that the unfortunate plane crash that has just occurred in Afghanistan is neither an Indian Scheduled Aircraft nor a Non-Scheduled Charter aircraft. The Ministry added that it is a Moroccan-registered small DF 10 aircraft.
Earlier, the Afghanistan-based media initially reported that the crashed plane was of Indian origin and was en route to Moscow.
Russian aviation authorities said Sunday, that a Russian-registered plane with six passengers onboard had disappeared from radar screens over Afghanistan.
As per reports, Afghan police received information of a crash in Badakhshan province.
The plane was a charter ambulance flight travelling from India to Moscow via Uzbekistan, on a French-made Dassault Falcon 10 jet manufactured in 1978.
Four crew members and two passengers were aboard the flight.
The Afghan provincial police spokesperson said in a statement the crash had taken place overnight in a remote, mountainous region of Badakhshan in Afghanistan’s far north.