DEPUTY GENERAL PROSECUTOR OF RUSSIAN FEDERATION ARRIVED AT THE PLACE OF CATASTROPHE
Panorama.am
13:53 03/05/06
Deputy General Prosecutor of Russian Federation Nikolay Shepel
arrived at the place of A-320 aircraft catastrophe. It was reported
by RIA -News agency with the reference to the General Procuracy of
the Russian Federation. According to the source, Procuracy created
investigative task force group, headed by the senior coroner of the
public prosecutor”s office of the city of Sochi.
It is worth to mention that in connection with catastrophe of the plane
A-320 public prosecutor”s office of Krasnodar region has initiated
the criminal investigation as per point 3 of the article 263 of the
Criminal Code of Russian Federation – “breach of the rules of safety
while using and piloting the air transport by individuals who are
obliged to follow and maintain those rules, due to the nature of
their occupation and which has caused death of two or more persons”.
As of public prosecutor”s offices, at present rescuers discovered
dead bodies and body fragments. Earlier Emergency Situations
Department reported that 25 dead bodies were taken off the water. On
preliminary finding each of 113 persons that were on board of the plane
perished. The debris of the plane are found on 400 meters beyond the
water surface.
Finmarket reports that the Minister of Transport of Russia Igor
Levitin has departed to the place of air -crash. It also reports
that specialists of the interstate aircraft committee joined the
investigation however first findings about reason of the tragedy will
be announced only after decryptions of the flight recorders. Meantime,
as Russian Media reports bad weather conditions sharply reduce the
probability of finding the flight recorders. The representative of
the International aircraft committee Rudolf Teymurazov has declared
that he is skeptical about the possibility to find anything in the
sea, moreover on more that one km distance from the coast . In this
connection he has noted that investigations of the reasons of the
catastrophe by the special commission will occupy long time and he
does not expect to come to any conclusions in the nearest time.
At present more than 20 rescue crews work at the place of the tragedy
, including deep-water device “Goblin” which allows to examine the
place of the catastrophe up to 500 meter depth . Besides that the
ship leaves from Sevastopol equipped with undersea device “Tiger”,
which will also be able to examine the objects at the depth of 500
m and more – says “Finmarket”.