"Multiple Charter and Private Jets Crash in Afghanistan, Leaving Survivors and Casualties"
A Russian-registered charter ambulance flight with six people on board, including a bedridden patient and her husband, disappeared from radar screens over Afghanistan. The plane, a French-made Dassault Aviation Falcon 10 jet, was traveling from Thailand to Moscow via India and Uzbekistan. The pilot had reported low fuel and engine trouble before the plane vanished. The Taliban-run Afghan aviation ministry stated that the plane's planned route did not include passing through Afghanistan's airspace. Russian authorities have opened a criminal case to determine if safety rules were violated, and a team has been sent to the remote crash site in Badakhshan province.
