Two Russians on Board Falcon Plane That Crashed in Afghanistan Dead - Emergency Services

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Two Russians who were on board a plane that crashed in Afghanistan on January 21 were found dead, the emergency services told Sputnik on Monday.

"Two Russian passengers died," the services said.

Four people who survived the crash of Russian airplane Falcon 10 in Afghanistan have been successfully rescued and evacuated from the site of the accident, Afghan broadcaster Hurriyat reported on Monday.

The survivors were taken to the center of the Kof Ab district early in the morning, the report said.

Meanwhile, 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.

The Falcon 10 plane with six people on board — four crew members and two passengers — was performing a charter sanitary flight from Thailand to Russia on Saturday evening, but stopped making contact and disappeared from radars while in the airspace of Afghanistan near the border with Tajikistan, Russian federal air transport regulator Rosaviatsia said.