A enterprise jet crashed north of Moscow on Wednesday evening, killing all the ten folks on board, the TASS information company reported.
In keeping with Russian emergency officers, Mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger listing, but it surely wasn’t instantly clear if he was on board.
Some experiences even recommended that the Embraer Legacy plane belonged to Prigozhin, founding father of the Wagner personal army firm. Prigozhin had led a failed mutiny towards the Russian army in June. The mutiny was ended by negotiations and an obvious Kremlin deal which noticed Prigozhin conform to relocate to neighbouring Belarus.
“An investigation has been launched into the Embraer aircraft crash that occurred tonight within the Tver area. In keeping with the passenger listing, amongst them is the title and surname of Yevgeny Prigozhin,” Russia’s aviation authority Rosaviatsia mentioned in a press release.
In keeping with TASS report, the jet, en route from Moscow to St Petersburg, was carrying seven passengers and three crew.
The authorities mentioned they had been investigating the crash, which occurred within the Tver area greater than 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of Moscow.