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Largest insurance implemented to families of crew members of Azerbaijanâ€™s plane crashed in Afghanistan

09 April 2013 15:48 (UTC +04:00)

Company says the payment was implemented for the event that crew members of IL-76 4K – AZ 55 plane of Azerbaijan-based Silk Way Company crashed in Afghanistan.

The insurance sum made AZN 600,000.

As Azerbaijani citizens, they were insured from “compulsory insurance against losing ability to work as a result of industrial accidents and professional diseases”.

Note that Azeri cargo plane chartered by foreign forces has crashed in eastern Afghanistan, officials say.

The Russian-made Ilyushin IL-76 was carrying nine crew when it went down overnight in the mountainous Siagerd area. The crew's fate is unclear.

Reports said the plane was carrying tonnes of supplies from Baku in Azerbaijan to Bagram base near Kabul.

The cause of the crash is not known. There were no reports of bad weather or insurgent activity in the area.

Azeri state air company Azal said in a statement: "On 6 July, at 0010 Kabul time, an Il-76 cargo plane belonging to Silk Way Airlines and heading from Baku to Bagram, crashed 25km from Kabul.