One of the survivors of an airplane that crash-landed in Afghanistan, pilot Arkady Grachev, has denied reports that the plane allegedly was carrying $1.2 million.&You should remember the mentality of the Afghan people.

They came to help us and they had to be thanked somehow; we gave them some cash,& Grachev told journalists in Moscow, TASS news agency reported.Pilot Dmitry Belyakov, has blamed the incident on a technical malfunction that led to a fuel problem.&The cause of the crash was a technical malfunction.

In all likelihood, a problem with fuel.

The presence of ice, which disrupted the flow from the main tanks to the feeder tanks,& he said.Belyakov noted that the pilots had been taking measures to prepare the aircraft to make an emergency landing up until the very last minutes before being forced to crash-land.&We were busy with emergency landing procedures; we determined the most favorable place where it could be landed, and we did find such a place, a flat mountain slope,& he added.The four people who survived the plane crash in Afghanistan & two pilots and two medics & were flown to Moscow on Friday. Six people were on board the aircraft en route from Thailand to Moscow.

The incident happened in Afghanistan&s northern Badakhshan province.The post Surviving pilot rejects reports plane that crashed in Badakhshan was carrying $1.2 million first appeared on Ariana News.