Evgeny Prigozhin was scheduled to fly on the Embraer Legacy jet that crashed with no survivors, authorities have reported.
The head of the Wagner Private Military Company, Evgeny Prigozhin, was listed among the passengers scheduled to fly on a private jet which crashed on Wednesday in Russia’s Tver Region, the country’s federal air transport agency has confirmed.
The Russian Emergencies Ministry said all 10 people on board the private jet, traveling from Moscow to St. Petersburg, had died.
“The Embraer plane was flying out of Sheremetyevo to St. Petersburg. There were three crew and seven passengers on board. They all died,” an official told TASS.
The crash happened near the village of Kuzhenkino in the northwestern Tver Region. Some Russian outlets have identified the plane as an Embraer Legacy 600, with the tail number RA-02795, which is believed to belong to Prigozhin. However, this was not confirmed by officials.
Rosaviatsiya, the Russian federal air transport agency, said Prigozhin’s name was on the passenger manifest.
Eight bodies have been recovered so far, officials told RIA Novosti.
Rosaviatsiya said it has established a special commission to investigate the cause and circumstances of the incident. It identified the airplane as the Embraer-135BJ private jet, owned by the company MNT-Aero.
Problem solved
This from ZeroHedge
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/prigozhins-dead-after-his-business-jet-10-people-board-has-crashed
Update(1605ET): At this point it’s looking like the entire top command of Russian mercenary outfit Wagner Group was aboard the private plane that was downed northwest of Moscow hours ago. Wagner itself is confirming Yvgeny Prigozhin’s death, with Wagner-affiliated Telegram channel Grey Zone calling it a “murder”.
“Anybody else wanna negotiate?”
https://www.youtube.com/@militarysummary/videos
This channel has been consistent with real-time news from the killing fields of Ukraine.
The author is from Belarus, so do your own diligence. But I have NOT been able to disprove any of his reporting, nor do I think he is propaganda.
revenge is a cold dish…..
Three possibilities:
(1) Accident
(2) West
(3) Russia
Before anyone says, why the West? Niger for one thing )and the threat of Wagner growing globally) and the fact Wagner has done a lot of the most successful fighting, against Ukraine…..
A bomb (s)?
Missiles?
Hasn’t been determined yet
Apparently there were two explosions
Like the Number 30 Tavistock Square bus on 7/7
Flight radar 24/7 tracked the altitude of the plane at 27000 ft which rapidly descended to 19000 ft before the explosions
There was another Wagner plane in the air following which returned to Moscow
Possibly secondary explosion caused by an exploding fuel tank?
Sabotage Killed Prigozhin — Who Did It?
https://sonar21.com/sabotage-killed-prigozhin-who-did-it/