Crashed plane owned by Georgian company

Inter-states Aviation Committee arrives, report on crash to be completed soon.


Express December 15, 2010

KARACHI: The cargo plane that crashed on November 28 in Karachi was owned by a private Georgian company and was not a Russian owned plane as previously reported. The plane was manufactured in Uzbekistan, when it was part of the USSR, in 1988 and had been based at Georgia’s Tbilisi airport since 1991. The Russian consul general Andrey Demidov said this while speaking to the press at the Russian Consulate in Karachi. He added that the cargo manifesto shows that the plane was not overloaded as previously speculated.

The cargo plane, an Ilyushin IL-76 aircraft bound for the Sudanese capital Khartoum crashed in a Naval housing colony near the Dalmia area two minutes after take-off on November 28. The plane was carrying humanitarian assistance. Twelve people died due to the crash.

Demidov also said that the Inter-states Aviation Committee arrived in the country on December 6.

The committee had visited the site and was working on deciphering the three black boxes found from the wreckage. The blood and DNA samples of the relatives of the victims have been sent to Pakistan and should be arriving shortly, he added. Demidov said that the committee’s report will be completed soon.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 15th, 2010.

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