Prigozhin was on board: Crashed plane passengers list published
Yevgeny Prigozhin (Photo: Russian media)
Among the passengers on board the business jet that crashed in the Tver region (Russia) on August 23 was the founder of the Wagner Private Military Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin," reports RBK-Ukraine with reference to Rosaviatsiya (The Federal Air Transport Agency).
Yes, the list of passengers and crew members of the Embraer-135 (EBM-135BJ) aircraft that crashed in the Tver region on August 23 has been published.
According to the airline, the following passengers were on board:
- Sergey Propustin - fighter of the Wagner Private Military Group;
- Evgeniy Makaryan - fighter of the Wagner Private Military Group;
- Alexander Totmin;
- Valeryi Chekalov - deputy of Prigozhin;
- Dmitry Utkin - commander of the Wagner Private Military Group;
- Nikolai Matuseev;
- Yevgeny Prigozhin - leader of the Wagner Private Military Group.
As well as crew members:
- Aleksei Levshin, captain;
- Rustam Karimov, co-pilot;
- Kristina Raspopova, flight attendant.
The statement from Rosaviation also mentions that the flight of the Embraer-135 aircraft was conducted based on the authorization to use airspace issued in accordance with established procedures.
Plane crash with Prigozhin in the Tver region
Today videos of the plane crash in the Tver region of Russia started circulating on the internet. It was later revealed that the aircraft was an Embraer Legacy 600 business jet with ten people on board. All of them perished.
Telegram channels were also spreading information that the aircraft belonged to Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner Private Military Group. He was reportedly a passenger on board.
