Specialists from the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK), a CIS flight safety watchdog, have begun studying the voice recorders from air traffic controllers and the crew of a Dagestan Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 airliner which made an emergency crash-landing at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport on December 4, the committee said on Monday.
"A flight, engineering and administration sub-committee and also a working group of air-traffic, weather, medical and other specialists is continuing to gather and process evidence and documentation for the investigation. Work is continuing on dissembling the fuel pumps in the aircraft's fuel system," MAK said.
MAK specialists have also taken fuel from the tanks of the left wing, and fuel and oil from the left fuselage engine and also taken samples of fuel from the tanker supplies at Vnukovo Airport, from where the aircraft took off en route to Makhachkala, Dagestan.
"Together with Tupolev company specialists, we are studying fragments of the aircraft and looking at the flight instruments and cabin equipment." MAK said.
Two passengers died and 80 were injured from the 163 passengers and ten crew on board after the Tu-154 made an emergency landing at Domodedovo shortly after taking off from Vnukovo Airport. The fuselage broke into several pieces when the aircraft ran off the runway at Domodedovo.
MOSCOW, December 13 (RIA Novosti)
