Four survive Pattaya-Moscow plane crash
published : 23 Jan 2024 at 08:42
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Reuters
Four survivors of a crash in northern Afghanistan of a plane on its way to Moscow were in good health, the Taliban administration said on Monday.
It also said that the bodies of two passengers killed in the accident were being moved to the Afghan capital from the remote crash site.
Russian aviation authorities said on Sunday the plane with six people thought to be on board disappeared from radar screens over Afghanistan on Saturday night and Afghan police said they had received reports of a crash in mountainous Badakhshan province.
Video footage showed the four men, some of whom had bruising visible on their faces and one with bloodstains on his clothes, stepping off a helicopter with Taliban officials.
The video showed a Taliban official saying the health of the survivors was good.
The flight that crashed had been carrying out a private medical evacuation from Pattaya to Moscow, a Russian news agency said.
About 25 minutes before the plane vanished from radar screens, the pilot warned that fuel was running low and that the plane would try to land at an airport in Tajikistan, a Russian news outlet reported.
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Vocabulary
- administration: the government of a country - รัฐบาล
- authority (noun): a person or government agency who has the power to make decisions or enforce the law - เจ้าหน้าที่ผู้มีอำนาจ
- aviation: the flying of aircraft - การบิน
- bloodstain (noun): a mark or spot of blood on something - รอยเลือด,จุดที่เปื้อนเลือด
- bruise: a mark that you get on your body if you are hit or if you knock against something - แผลฟกช้ำ, รอยฟกช้ำ
- capital: the most important town or city of a country, usually where the central government operates from - เมืองหลวง
- evacuation: moving people from a place of danger to a safer place - การอพยพ
- mountainous: having a lot of mountains -
- radar: a system that uses radio waves to find the position and movement of objects, for example planes and ships, when they cannot be seen - เรดาร์, อุปกรณ์ตรวจจับวัตถุเคลื่อนที่
- remote: far away from other cities, towns, or people - ที่ห่างไกล
- survive: to continue to live - มีชีวิตรอด
- survivor: someone who still exists after an event that could have killed or destroyed them - ผู้รอดชีวิต
- vanish: to disappear or stop being present or existing, especially in a sudden, surprising way - หายไป
