An Embraer Legacy plane crashed in the Bologovsky district of the Tver region. It is reported by RBC with reference to the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
According to the publication, the plane was flying Moscow – St. Petersburg. There were 10 people on board, including 3 crew members. According to preliminary information, they all died. TASS, citing the Federal Air Transport Agency, writes that among the passengers was a businessman and founder of Wagner PMC Yevgeny Prigozhin.
According to the Baza telegram channel, the crashed plane is an Embraer ERG 135 with tail number RA-02795. It belongs to Evgeny Prigozhin
“Katya, I don’t know if you see. The plane flew and flew and exploded. There was such an explosion!” eyewitnesses said. They claim that the plane exploded in the air.
