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Taliban Shares Fresh Footage of Falcon 10 Crash Survivors

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - 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.
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The survivors were taken to the center of the Kof Ab district early in the morning, the report said.
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.
On Sunday, Rosaviatsia said that rescuers had found a crashed plane. According to preliminary information, of the six people on board, only four survived, the regulator said, adding that the fate of two others was being clarified. Later in the day, the Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case over the plane crash.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the Russian Embassy was in contact with the Afghan authorities.
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