The fact that the black boxes were sent to Brazil also shows that we demand objectivity, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said at the meeting with the families of the crew members who lost their lives and the surviving flight attendants from the crash of an Embraer 190 passenger plane operated by Azerbaijan Airlines CJSC on the Baku-Grozny route, APA reports.
"The fact that the black boxes were sent to Brazil also shows that we demand objectivity. I already spoke about this after the farewell ceremony for the crew. If we had seen attempts on the part of the official circles of the Russian Federation to objectively investigate this tragedy from the very first minutes or hours, we would most likely have agreed to the decoding of the black boxes by the Interstate Aviation Committee. We have been cooperating with this structure for decades, we have been cooperating with it quite actively. And this structure was essentially in charge of investigating airplane crashes in the former USSR. But when we saw attempts to hush up the case, to brush it off to some birds or a gas cylinder explosion, both I and the Azerbaijani public started to have serious doubts about the objectivity of the investigation by this structure, of course. The black boxes are being decoded now, and I am sure that we will find out preliminary results in the near future and everything will fall into place. The whole picture of the tragedy will be clear. And this, of course, will be an important part of the full investigation of this tragedy and the punishment of those responsible for it," President Ilham Aliyev said.