{"id":272568,"date":"2023-08-23T18:19:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T18:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=272568"},"modified":"2023-08-25T07:39:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T07:39:57","slug":"wagner-chief-listed-among-passengers-on-crashed-plane-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=272568","title":{"rendered":"Wagner chief listed among passengers on crashed plane \u2013 officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Smoke from the plane crash in the Tver region<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>RT \u2013 Aug 23, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>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\u2019s Tver Region, the country\u2019s federal air transport agency has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Yevgeny-Prigozhin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-265971\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Yevgeny-Prigozhin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>The Russian Emergencies Ministry said all 10 people on board the private jet, traveling from Moscow to St. Petersburg, had died.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Embraer plane was flying out of Sheremetyevo to St. Petersburg. There were three crew and seven passengers on board. They all died,\u201d<\/em> an official told TASS.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p data-has-alias=\"\">Rosaviatsiya, the Russian federal air transport agency, said Prigozhin\u2019s name was on the passenger manifest.<\/p>\n<p>Eight bodies have been recovered so far, officials told RIA Novosti.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/581729-wagner-chief-plane\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evgeny Prigozhin was scheduled to fly on the jet that crashed with no survivors. Were Kremlin insiders behind the \u2018accident\u2019?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":272569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272570,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272568\/revisions\/272570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/272569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}