Exact moment plane ‘carrying Wagner chief Prigozhin’ vanishes from radar | World News

This is the moment a private jet reportedly carrying Wagner group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin disappeared from being tracked.

Video and pictures from a flight tracking website shows the private jet, which crashed not far from the Russian capital of Moscow, disappearing from the site as its journey came to an abrupt end.

Flightradar24 recorded the unidentified plane flying north west, and then disappearing from the screen north of Moscow.

Get the latest Yevgeny Prigozhin updates on Metro.co.uk‘s Russia plane crash live blog.

Rosaviatsia, Russia’s aviation agency, said in a statement on Wednesday: ‘An investigation has been launched into an Embraer plane crash that occurred tonight in the Tver region.

‘According to the passenger list, the name and surname of Yevgeny Prigozhin is among them.’

It’s also believed Dmitry Utkin, the founder of mercenary group Wagner, was on the flight.

He and Prigozhin were listed as being amongst the seven passengers and three crew on the plane – but it’s not yet clear if they both boarded the flight.

So far, eight bodies have been recovered from the wreckage, after the plane crashed shortly before 6pm local time on Wednesday.

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