BANGKOK, January 21. /TASS/. The aircraft that disappeared from radars in Afghanistan, was performing a medical evacuation of a Russian citizen from Pattaya, a source in the consular department of the Russian embassy in Thailand told TASS.

"The flight was from Pattaya. On Friday, January 19, there was an instruction from the All-Russian Center for Disaster Medicine ‘Zashchita’, which was never delivered for work, which means that it has nothing to do with the organization of this flight, same as the embassy. According to some sources, this was a private medical evacuation of the Russian citizen Anna Yevsyukova with the participation of an insurance company. The Russian citizen was accompanied by her husband Anatoly Yevsyukov who is also a Russian citizen," the source said.

A source in the operative services told TASS that a businessman from Volgodonsk Anatoly Yevsyukov and his spouse were aboard the jet. According to public sources, Yevsyukov owns several markets in Volgodonsk.

The Russian Federal Agency for Air Transport said earlier that late on Saturday, on January 20, flying in the airspace of Afghanistan (near Tajikistan’s border), the Falcon 10 aircraft that was registered in the state register of civil aircraft of the Russian Federation, stopped establishing communication and disappeared from radars. The aircraft initially took off from the Thai U-Tapao airport, performing a charter sanitary flight on route Gaya (India) - Tashkent (Uzbekistan) - Zhukovsky (Russia). Six people were aboard the aircraft, according to preliminary data, the agency said.