Il-76 aircraft crashed in East Timor

The IL-76 transport aircraft of Russian production suffered on Friday the crash on the coast of the South Asian state of East Timor. On board the aircraft were six crew members - they are all Russian citizens.

The plane was operated by the Iranian Aram Air airline. According to a source in Russian aviation circles, Aram Air plane was leased by the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. According to the source, before the transfer of the aircraft to Ukraine, he flew to the USSR Air Force and his on-board number was then the RA-76562.

At the same time, Ukrainian aircraft transport companies do not confirm assumptions about the belonging to Ukraine who broke up in the Eastern Timor IL-76. Ukrainian IL-76 operators, including the Ukrainian Air Transport Company and Volar company, confirmed that the IL-76 Aviation Park is not related to the air transport in East Timor.

The press service of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine to the question of the agency answered that the Ukrainian military did not take part in the peacekeeping mission as part of the UN and other international missions in East Timor.

At the moment, at the site of the disaster, rescuers from the composition of international police forces on East Timor discovered five bodies of the dead Russians. With the onset of darkness and due to the ongoing rain, the search for the latter - the sixth member of the Russian crew are suspended.

“The searches will be resumed on Saturday morning,” the Australian International Police Greg Rans, heading the headquarters of the search operation, said by phone from the place of tragedy. Previously, the bodies of five dead pilots were discovered. According to Rans, the work is difficult to extremely difficult weather conditions in the area of ​​the aircraft fall.

The names of the crew of a crashed aircraft were established: the ship commander Petr Charunov, the second pilot Andrei Matvienko, the navigator Alexander Dyatlov, Bortinzhener Yuri Busygin, the mechanic Valery Skhvanov and the second mechanic Yuri Erokhin.

The Russian Ministry of Emergencies confirmed that at the site of the disaster of the Russian Il-76 aircraft, the bodies of five crew members were found in East Timor. The IL-76 aircraft followed from China to the city of Gili East Timor with a cargo of components for the telephone station. The Russian plane was captured by Euro Asia Aviation, the central office of which is located in Laos, a representative of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies said on Friday Interfax.

According to eyewitnesses, Il-76 attempted to sit at the airport three times, but did not hit the runway and fell in the jungle. According to preliminary data, the plane fell when landing at about 15 hours 30 hours of local time. The incident occurred 5 km from Baukau Airport, 100 km from the capital of the country of Dili, ITAR-TASS reports. The cause of the crash was limited visibility in fog conditions.

The UN mission in East Timor sent rescuers to search for the crew of a broken liner

The UN mission in East Timor sent a rescue plane with a group of 30 international peacekeepers to search for the crew of the crashed Russian Il-76 liner. This was announced by the speaker of the UN mission in East Timor Vilton Fonesca.

The UN headquarters in New York confirmed the fact of the disaster in the East Timor on Friday the IL-76, the Russian Aviation Air Force, the Russian Civil Aviation Service of Russia said.

However, according to the representative of the State Aviation Administration, the UN did not indicate the board number of the aircraft, which makes it difficult to determine its affiliation. In addition, rescuers cannot disassemble his number on the plane, as his fragments Il-76 were very burned.

It is still unknown which country belongs to the plane

Russian airlines have already sent requests to all Russian airlines that perform flights under the UN flag. “At the moment, it is highly likely to say that it was not a Russian airline,” the source emphasized.

According to the analysis of the State Aviation Administration of Russia, a crashed plane, most likely, belonged to the Ukrainian airline or Iran, where there is also IL-76.

The Russian Commission on the Investigation of the Causes of the Cargo Air Cargo Air Il-76 disaster will fly to the scene of the incident on Sunday

The Russian Commission on the investigation of the causes of the IL-76 freight disaster in East Timor from the specialists of the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAC) will fly to the scene by incident on Sunday, February 2.

As reported on Friday to the MAC, "currently the formation of the Russian part of the commission, which to join the investigation." Most likely, they noted in the MAC, Russian experts will fly to the eastern Timor on the next flight - on Sunday.

The Russian Foreign Ministry verifies information about the plane crash in East Timor and the presence of Russian pilots on board the IL-76

The Russian Embassy in Indonesia finds out all the circumstances related to the catastrophe in the eastern Timor of the Il-76 aircraft, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexander Yakovenko said on Friday.

According to him, the Russian side checks, including through the UN Secretariat in New York, information about Russian citizenship of crew members of a broken aircraft.

Yakovenko assured that the Russian embassy maintains constant contact with representatives of the UN Mission in East Timor in connection with this plane crash.