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Russian mercenary Yevgeny Prigozhin's plane appeared fine on radar until last 30 seconds

Aug 23 (Reuters) - An Embraer  (EMBR3.SA)  Legacy 600 executive jet, believed to have carried Wagner mercenary chief  Yevgeny Prigozhin to his death  on Wednesday, showed no sign of problem until a precipitous drop in its final 30 seconds, according to flight-tracking data. Rosaviatsia, Russia's aviation agency said Prigozhin, who led an aborted mutiny in June, was one of 10 people on board the downed plane. It was traveling from Moscow to St. Petersburg when it crashed near the village of Kuzhenkino in the Tver Region, Russia's emergency situations ministry said. At 3:19 p.m. GMT, the aircraft made a “sudden downward vertical,” said Ian Petchenik of Flightradar24. Within about 30 seconds, the aircraft had plummeted more than 8,000 feet from its cruising altitude of 28,000 feet. “Whatever happened, happened quickly,” Petchenik said. “They may have been wrestling (with the aircraft) after whatever happened," Petchenik said. But prior to its dramatic drop, there was "n...