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Caspian-crashed helicopterâ€™s flight recorder results to be known in a month

24 October 2007 11:27 (UTC +04:00)

Jafarzadeh said that the flight recorderâ€™s part of technical parameters is being read in Baku and part of radio communications by CIS Interstate Aviation Committee experts. All parts of the helicopter have already been taken out of the sea, the bodies of two out of six â€“ Gahraman Asadov and Zahid Shashkayev are being searched.
MI-8 helicopter owned by AzAlhelicopters of AzAL State Concern crashed on October 12.
The helicopter crashed into the Caspian Sea as it evacuated Gahraman Asadov sick worker and his fellow worker Zahid Shashkayev from SOCARâ€™s drilling platform Khazar-4, located in the West Absheron field. Four crew members and two SOCAR employees were on board.
About 20 divers of Caspian Oil Fleet and lifting cranes took four bodies and the main parts of the helicopter out of 12m-depth.
The bodies of captain Vladimir Nekrasov, second pilot Ahmad Aliyev, instructor-captain Victor Glinenko and his assistant Jahid Ibrahimov have been found.
Azerbaijani General Prosecutorâ€™s Office launched a criminal case on the fact. /APA/