Bodies of 7 crewmembers of Silk Way Airlines plane crash in Afghanistan brought to Baku

18:50, 20.05.2016 1 min read

The bodies of the seven crewmembers of an Antonov An-12 cargo plane belonging to Silk Way Airlines (Azerbaijan), which crashed in Afghanistan on Wednesday, were delivered to Baku on Friday, the Azerbaijani State Civil Aviation Administration said in a statement.

The flight recorders from the plane have also been brought to Baku, and their condition was qualified as satisfactory.

"Azerbaijan will analyze the 'black boxes' together with specialists from the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC)," it said.

It was reported earlier that an An-12 rented from Silk Way Airlines crashed while taking off from the Dwyer Airport in Afghanistan's Helmand province at about 2:30 p.m. local time on Wednesday.

According to reports from Azerbaijan, there were nine crewmembers aboard the plane, and the crash killed seven of them, including five citizens of Azerbaijan; two Ukrainians survived the crash.