Azerbaijan: Silk Way’s aircraft crashed after hitting obstruction

The AN-12 aircraft of Azerbaijan’s Silk Way crashed in Afghanistan on May 18th after hitting an obstruction, Arif Mammadov, head of Azerbaijan’s State Civil Aviation Administration, said at a briefing on Thursday, APA reports.

Necessary investigative actions are ongoing, Mammadov said.  

The rented plane was managed by international crew, which included a citizen of Uzbekistan (the captain), three citizens of Ukraine and five Azerbaijani nationals.

The State Civil Aviation Administration established a commission to investigate the incident.

The commission members have today left for Afghanistan for further investigations.