Arkady Grachev News Today

One of the survivors of an airplane that crash-landed in Afghanistan, pilot Arkady Grachev, has denied reports that the plane allegedly was carrying $1.2 million. "You should remember the mentality of the Afghan people. They came to help us and they had to be thanked somehow; we gave them some cash," Grachev told journalists in

Last week’s aircraft crash in northeastern Badakhshan province has been linked to a technical malfunction, possibly fuel issues.

Afghanistan Embassy in China has announced that the first meeting of the regional contact group on Afghanistan will be held in Kabul on Monday. According to a statement released by the embassy on Friday, Asadullah Bilal Karimi, Afghanistan's ambassador to China, met with Mao Ning, deputy director of department of Asian affairs of the Chinese

The Taliban is currently under scrutiny following reports of $1.2 million allegedly being "stolen" from a Russian private jet that crashed in Afghanistan's

Afghan newspaper Hasht-e Subh reported that the money was stolen from the private jet after it crashed in the Badakhshan province.

Dmitry Belyakov noted that the pilots had been taking measures to prepare the aircraft to make an emergency landing up until the very last minutes before being forced to crash-land

The plane - a Falcon 10 air ambulance - was taking a seriously ill woman Anna Evsyukova, 59, from Thailand to Moscow when it crashed.

The Falcon 10 air ambulance got into trouble over Afghanistan on a medical emergency flight to bring a seriously ill Russian tourist - the millionaires wife - home from Thailand .

It is feared that six people who were aboard have been killed after the jet, understood to be operating as an ambulance is believed to have gone down in Badakhshan province

Anatoly Evsyukov, 65 and his wife, Anna Evsyukova, 64, were aboard the Dassault Falcon 10 aircraft when it fell off the radar near the rural Badakhshan province, in northeastern Afghanistan, on Saturday.