Evgeny Prigozhin was scheduled to fly on Embraer Legacy that crashed with no survivors, authorities have reported

Smoke after a plane crash in the Tver region. ©  photo of an eyewitness

A private jet traveling from Moscow to St. Petersburg crashed on Wednesday in Russia’s Tver Region. The Russian Emergencies Ministry said all 10 people on board had died. Rosaviation has since said that Evgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner Private Military Company, was listed among the passengers.

“The Embraer plane was flying out of Sheremetyevo to St. Petersburg. There were three crew and seven passengers on board. They all died,” an Emergencies Ministry official told TASS.

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.

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Rosaviation, the Russian federal air transport agency, said that Prighozhin’s name was on the passenger manifest. 

Eight bodies have been recovered so far, officials told RIA Novosti. An investigation into the incident is underway.

Rosaviation said that 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.