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USD 127 100 compensation to be paid to families of each crew member killed as a result of plane crash in Afghanistan

USD 127 100 compensation to be paid to families of each crew member killed as a result of plane crash in Afghanistan
# 09 July 2011 10:27 (UTC +04:00)
The amount of compensation will be about AZN 100 000 (USD 127 100) to the family of each of the killed. The families of crew members from Uzbekistan were brought to Baku and placed in “Aeroport” hotel”, said President of “Silk Way” LLC Holding Zaur Akhundov. According to him, both plane and crew members were insured. The issues on the insurance will be settled after the end of the incident’s investigation: “Silk Way” has been carrying out flights to Afghanistan for 10 years. The Afghanistan state ensured security of the flights during this period”.

“Silk Way” Air Company’s director Shamsaddin Mirsalayev said that the company’s planes have been entering to Afghanistan with a serious schedule: “they were sating to us the time of plane’s entering to Afghanistan”.

Mirsalayev said that the last information from dispatcher on crashed plane proves that there were no technical failures in the plane, the crew members were working normally, and shows that there were no attempts to change height.

On July 6, 2011, at about 00.10, while preparing to land in Bagram airport, the communication with IL-76 4K-AZ 55 belonging to Azerbaijan’s Silk Way aviation company suddenly broke off and its view disappeared in radars. According to statement made by Azerbaijan State Civil Aviation Administration, the aircraft collided with unknown object in the air. It is supposed that the aircraft collided with unknown object in the air. Earlier, a representative of the movement "Taliban" Zabibulla Modzhahid told Afghan media that Azerbaijani plane was shot down by Taliban.

The plane implementing the flight on Baku-Bagram route with 18 tons of cargo took off from Heydar Aliyev International Airport at 21.26 (local time of Baku), on July 5, 2011. Before this flight the plane flied on Kuwait-Baku route and no disorder was recorded during this flight.

İl-76 4K-AZ 55 aircraft was produced in 2005 and last time it passed tech inspection in February of 2011 and next time in June. All 9 members of crew team have been dead. 5 of them are the citizens of Azerbaijan, 4 – Uzbekistan.






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