| Date: 23 August 2023 | Local time: 18:20 (UTC+3) | Aircraft: Business jet | Model: Embraer ERJ-135BJ Legacy 600 | Registration: RA-02795 | Serial number: MSN 14501008 | Operator: Wagner Group | FirstFlight: 2007 |
| Description: The airplane with registration RA-02795 was on a flight between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russia. It took off at Moskva-Sheremetyevo Airport around 17:55 (UTC+3) and ascended normally to the cruising altitude in about 15 minutes. It kept the altitude until 18:19 (UTC+3) when several ascends and descends were recorded, before disappearing from the radars at 18:20:14 (UTC+3). Soon after it was seen to fall uncontrollably with the nose down. It crashed on the ground near the village of Kuzhenkino in Tver Oblast, Russia. The crew and the passengers did not survive. Consequently, the Embraer Legacy 600 with serial number 14501008 was written off. At the time of the crash the aircraft was owned by the private company “MNT-Aero LLC” (МНТ-Аэро) and operated by the Wagner Group through a private company. The passenger list included the names of Sergey Propustin (Сергей Пропустин), Evgeniy Makaryan (Евгений Макарян), Aleksandr Totmin (Александр Тотмин), Valeriy Chekalov (Валерий Чекалов), Dmitriy Utkin (Дмитрий Уткин), Nikolay Matuseev (Николай Матусеев) and Yevgeny Prigozhin (Евгений Пригожин). The crew members were captain Aleksei Levshin (Алексей Левшин), co-pilot Rustam Karimov (Рустам Каримов) and flight attendant Kristina Raspopova (Кристина Распопова). The history of aircraft ownership is available here. | |||||||
| Fate: Written off | Location: near Kuzhenkino in Tver Oblast, Russia | Crew+Passengers: 3+7 | Fatalities: 3+7 | Injuries: 0+0 | Survivors: 0+0 | ||
| The crash and fatalities are confirmed by the authorities, however the final investigation is not complete. | |||||||