India’s Ministry of Civil Aviation clarified that the plane was neither a scheduled commercial flight nor an Indian chartered aircraft.
A Russian chartered flight that left India for Moscow via Uzbekistan was feared to have crashed after it went missing from radar screens over Afghanistan on Saturday night, Reuters reported. There were six persons on board.
Afghan authorities subsequently reported a crash in a mountainous area in the Badakhshan province, about 200 kilometres from Fayzabad, the provincial headquarters.
