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Members of commission created for investigation of reasons of the crash of Azerbaijani plane in Afghanistan left for Afghanistan

08 July 2011 08:09 (UTC +04:00)

To him, military helicopter carrying commission members took off the Bagram international airport by escort of international coalition forces in Afghanistan (IFAS) at 10.30 (Baku time): â€œAccording to the plan agreed during yesterdayâ€™s meeting of commission, after they get out of the helicopter, the commission members will go to the site of the accident by armored carriers till the foot of the mountain. Thereafter, they will walk 3 hours in order to reach the siteâ€.

Gasimov said that movement route would not be made public for security purposes.

Note that, the commission created for investigation of accident took place in Afghanistan is represented by the representatives of Afghanistan, Azerbaijan and IFAS. There are representatives of Silk Way avia company inside the commission too. Vice-president of AZAL Ilham Amirov leads the commission on the Azerbaijani side.

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.