2024 Falcon 10 accident in Badakhshan
Athletic Group Dassault Falcon 10 · Engine failure (under investigation)
From U-Tapao International Airport, Ban Chang District, Rayong, Thailand to Zhukovsky International Airport (ZIA)
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 2 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 4
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Unknown
Dassault Falcon 10
- Aircraft type
- Dassault Falcon 10
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- RA-09011
- Operator
- Athletic Group
- Onboard fatalities
- 2
- Route
- From U-Tapao International Airport, Ban Chang District, Rayong, ThailandTo Zhukovsky International Airport (ZIA)
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
The 2024 Badakhshan Falcon 10 crash took place on 20 January 2024, when a Dassault Falcon 10 aircraft crashed in Kuf Ab district, in Badakhshan province, Afghanistan. The aircraft was carrying six people, of whom two died in the disaster. The flight had departed from Thailand heading for Moscow, Russia, with a refuelling stop in India. This was the first fatal air disaster to happen in Afghanistan since 2020.
Accident
Authorities stated that the accident occurred at 19h AFT (Afghanistan Local Time) on 20 January, in a mountainous region of Kuf Ab district, in Badakhshan province, Afghanistan, 200 kilometres from the provincial capital, Faizabad. According to information from Flightradar24, the aircraft disappeared from radar at around 18h AFT (01:30 GMT), south of Peshawar, in Pakistan. The Russian press reported that before the disaster, the pilot made a radio call, declaring that he was low on fuel and that he planned to land in Tajikistan before both engines flamed out from fuel exhaustion. The aircraft disappeared 25 minutes after this call.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
The Afghan Ministry of Transport and Aviation announced that its technical team had launched an investigation into the accident, which is attributed to technical problems. A Taliban spokesman attributed the accident to "engine problems".
The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal investigation into the accident, citing alleged violations of air safety rules or negligence. This is common in cases of air accidents involving Russian aircraft. The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, stated that officials of the Russian embassy in Kabul are working with Afghan officials on the investigations into the accident.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Portuguese Wikipedia article “Acidente do Falcon 10 no Badaquistão em 2024” (revision 67382462, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Portuguese Wikipedia article: Acidente do Falcon 10 no Badaquistão em 2024
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 67382462 · 2024-01-28 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q124340522
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- pt Wikipedia article "Acidente do Falcon 10 no Badaquistão em 2024" (page 7290059, revision 67382462), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- not stated in the Wikipedia article's infobox or opening paragraph
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Portuguese Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.