The company that owned the Falcon 10 business jet that crashed in Afghanistan did not have a license to fly internationally. Maria Trubnikova, investigator for particularly important cases of the Moscow investigation department of the Western Interregional Investigative Committee on Transport of the Investigative Committee of Russia (IC) on air and water transport, told this live on the TV channel. “Russia 24”.
“The plane that crashed belonged to Athletic Group,” he said.
According to the investigator, the company also did not have a passenger air transportation license.
Trubnikova added that the owner of the plane and the general manager of the company is the ex-wife of co-pilot Arkady Grachev. Grachev himself was involved in the operation of the aircraft.
On January 21, a Russian Falcon 10 business jet crashed in a mountainous area in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province. The plane was supposed to deliver a sick Russian woman on a ventilator to Moscow. While the woman was accompanied by her husband, there were also two doctors and a pilot on board. The doctors and crew survived.
Business jet pilot Arkady Grachev and his ex-wife Ekaterina Agapova may face up to 10 years in prison under the article “Providing services that do not meet safety requirements.” More details in the material “Newspapers.Ru”.
Previously to Moscow reached Survivors of the crash of a private Russian plane in Afghanistan.