RT reports that the company that owned the Falcon 10 plane that crashed in Afghanistan did not have permission to conduct medical flights, according to a source familiar with the situation. According to RT, investigators have questions for pilots Dmitry Belyakov and Arkady Grachev, but they have not yet been able to interrogate them, since they are in Afghanistan. Pilots in a criminal case are considered victims.
An RT source claims that Falcon 10 belongs to the director of Athletic Group Ekaterina Agapova and Grachev in equal shares. These former spouses, who are now divorced, are the owners of the crashed plane. According to the businesswoman, she knew nothing about her ex-husband’s flight and the flight that was supposed to be used to transport a sick Russian woman from Thailand to Russia.
According to the source, the flight was organized by the sick woman’s family through an insurance company, but Athletic Group did not have experience in such flights or the appropriate license. Pilots Belyakov and Grachev, who organized the flight through their company Jet Aero, also did not have a license for commercial and medical transportation, the source added.
Source: Rosbalt
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