Earlier this summer, Prigozhin and the Wagner Group rebelled against President Putin and his regime. They did not succeed in this and many have been waiting to see what consequences the attempted rebellion would have for Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin. Several have come forward and believed that the crash that took the life of the brutal Wagner leader on Wednesday was an assassination ordered by President Vladimir Putin. It is not confirmed. This is what we know so far about the plane crash: Happened quickly According to Flightradar24, a website where air traffic can be monitored, the plane disappeared from the radar at 18:11 local time. According to the website, the plane should not have shown any signs of problems before it had a sharp drop in altitude in the last 30 seconds, flight tracking data from the app shows. These were on board: There were 10 people on board the plane that crashed. Seven passengers and three crew. CNN reports that only eight bodies have been found at the crash site. Rosaviatsia, Russia’s aviation agency, published the names of all 10 people on board the downed plane. Here it emerges that Utkin Dmitriy, often referred to as Prigozhin’s right-hand man and founder of Wagner, was also on board the plane. Also on board was Valery Chekalov, one of Prigozhin’s closest friends for a long time. Was also responsible for Prigozhin’s security and logistics in the Wagner group. The other dead were Yevgeny Makaryan, Sergej Propustin, Alexander Totmin and Nikolaj Matuseev. All members of the Wagner Group. The plane, of the “Embraer Legacy 600” type, crashed with ten people on board on Wednesday. Photo: Reuters The plane’s route The plane took off from Moscow and was on its way to St. Petersburg, where Prigozhin has long had his main base. According to Flightradar24, the plane must have been in the air for around 30 minutes. During the trip, the plane reached an altitude of 28,000 feet or around 8,500 meters before crashing to the ground. Witness descriptions Several witnesses in Kuszhenkino, a village close to where the plane crashed, are said to have heard one or more big bangs around the time the plane crashed. One of the witnesses describes the bang as “definitely not thunder, but a metallic bang. According to witnesses, remains of the plane have been found over a large area of several kilometres. The blue and white tail of the plane is said to have been found near a wooded area. The plane The plane that crashed was a private plane of the type “Embraer Legacy 600” and is a so-called private jet owned by Wagner. The aircraft has room for between 13 and 15 passengers in total, depending on the type of aircraft. Embraer, the company that once sold the plane, has imposed sanctions on Russia since the start of the war. The aircraft has not had any service work done since 2019
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