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Known when examination results of remains of Afghanistan-crashed Azerbaijani planeâ€™s crew members will be made public

10 August 2011 11:27 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Hafiz Heydarov â€“ APA. It is known when the results of the examination of the remains of the crew members of the Afghanistan-crashed Azerbaijani plane will be made public. Director General of Health Ministryâ€™s Forensic Medical Examination and Pathological Anatomy Union Shakir Musayev told APA that work continues to identify the remains.
â€œMuch has been done in this field and there are some improvements. As regards the results of the examination, the results will be made public in the first ten-day of next month,â€ he said.

Advisor of director of Sillk Way avia company, Azerbaijani member of the commission set up to investigate the causes of the crash, Adil Gasimov told APA that the flight recorder of the crashed plane will be sent to Russia soon.

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 Azerbaijanâ€™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.

Ä°l-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 â€“ Uzbekistan.