The Embraer Legacy 600 jet, long linked to the Wagner group, rapidly lost altitude and contact 33 minutes into its flight
The aircraft on which Yevgeny Prigozhin was travelling had long been linked with the Wagner group. An Embraer Legacy 600 jet, the flight tracking service FlightRadar identified it as being in regular use in recent months, flying from both St Petersburg and Moscow.
According to some reports, the Wagner party on board had been attending a meeting with officials from Russia’s defence ministry.
