Russian investigative bodies are conducting a comprehensive investigation into the crash of the Embraer-190 aircraft of the Azerbaijani airline AZAL.
The causes and circumstances of the plane crash are being studied, including the version of the plane's destruction as a result of external interference, the Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan said today.
According to the press release of the agency, the Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan held a telephone conversation with the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin.
"The Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin informed Kamran Aliyev about the creation of an investigative group consisting of professional investigators and forensic experts to conduct a full, comprehensive and objective investigation of the criminal case. He said that the causes and circumstances of the plane crash are being studied, including external interference, and intensive measures are being taken to identify the perpetrators and bring them to criminal responsibility," the statement of the Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan continued.
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The head of the Investigative Committee of Russia and the Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan discussed the investigation of the Aktau disaster
Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) Alexander Bastrykin and Azerbaijan's Prosecutor General Kyamran Aliyev have held a telephone conversation.
The parties discussed the investigation into the causes of the crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane, the Investigative Committee said in a statement.
"They discussed comprehensive co-operation between Russian investigators and criminalists and their colleagues from the investigative and operational teams of Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan," the report said. Alexander Bastrykin assured that from the Russian side the most experienced employees of the central office of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in the field of air accidents investigation were involved in the work. According to him, they should establish all the causes and circumstances of the crash, the report says.
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