Commission, investigating Azerbaijani aircraft crash in Afghanistan, returns to Baku

The commission members, investigating the causes of the Azerbaijani aircraft crashed in Afghanistan, returned to Baku last night, a diplomatic source said.

"The commission members will return to Afghanistan to continue investigating the crash of the Azerbaijani plane, as well as revealing and transporting the bodies of crew members to their homeland after the visa and security issues of their stay in Afghanistan are resolved," the source said.

Today, the situation with the security issues in Afghanistan is rather complex. It is dangerous for the representatives of one of member-countries of the coalition forces - Azerbaijan, to stay in this country, the source said.

The "flight recorder" of the aircraft crashed in Afghanistan and found several days ago by the U.S. military is still in Afghanistan. It will be delivered to the office of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) for decoding in the nearest future, Azerbaijani ambassador to Pakistan and Afghanistan Dashgin Shikarov said earlier.

The flight recorder has been already sent to the Afghani Ministry of Transport, the ambassador said.

One failed to transport the bodies of nine crew members from the crash site.

Five members of the nine-person crew on the "Azerbaijan Airlines" cargo aircraft were Azerbaijani citizens. The other victims were Uzbekcitizens, the ambassador said. All crew members of the "Azerbaijan Airlines" cargo aircraft were killed.


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