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A year passed since crash of Azerbaijani plane in Afghanistan

05 July 2012 21:10 (UTC +04:00)

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. 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:

1. Captain Sergei Kuzmin (born in 1969)
2. Second pilot Oleg Marshikhin (1979)
3. Steersman Igor Chjen (1966)
4. Onboard engineer Vladimir Shatobin (1969)
5. Onboard signalman Ehmadjan Khajayev (1955)
6. Onboard operator Elnur Mahmoudov (1981)
7. Onboard operator Tapdig Gahramanov (1964)
8. Air technician Efghan Rehimov (1980)
9. Air technician Mehman Huseynov (1962)

The plane crashed in the territory controlled by Taliban forces. Though the Azerbaijani, Afghanistanâ€™s and NATO representatives attempted to approach the site they were fired several times. By taking the reality into account, the Azerbaijani side conducted talks with Taliban forces, too. And consequently, bodies of 4 crew members (Azerbaijani citizens - Tapdig Gahramanov, Mehman Huseynov, Oleg Marshikhin and Uzbekistanâ€™s citizen - Vladimir Shatobin) were found, other 5 considered missing.