MADRID Dec. 28 () –
The Government of Turkey has appointed this Friday a commission of experts to investigate the causes of the accident of the Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) airliner that took place on December 25 in Kazakhstan, reported the Turkish Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Abdulkadir Uraloglu. .
“Following the accident of the passenger plane of the Azerbaijan airline AZAL in Aktau (Kazakhstan), at the request of the State Civil Aviation Agency of Azerbaijan, we appointed an investigative committee consisting of eight people to investigate the causes of the accident, conduct analysis technical and operational and provide the necessary support,” Uraloglu said in a post on his account on the social network X.
The Turkish Transport Minister has specified that the aforementioned delegation has embarked on its trip to Baku this Friday night and has indicated that this Saturday they will begin their work on the ground, in collaboration with the Azerbaijan authorities, “to examine all aspects of the incident according to their areas of expertise.
“We declare that we support Azerbaijan in all circumstances, may God have mercy on those who lost their lives and once again we convey our wishes for a speedy recovery to our Azerbaijani brothers,” Uraloglu concluded on behalf of the country’s authorities.
On Christmas Day, an Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 plane covering the Baku-Grozny route crashed three kilometers from the airport in the Kazakh city of Aktau, leaving 38 dead and 29 injured, most of them seriously.
Due to thick fog in Grozny, it was diverted to Makhachkala, Russian Dagestan, and then to Aktau, where it eventually crashed. During the change of route, the crew sounded the emergency signal due to events that are still unknown, although it has been speculated that a flock of birds damaged one of the engines, or there was an explosion of an oxygen tank in the cockpit, which made the pilots lose control.
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