Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko says it is necessary to publish the recordings of the negotiations between the pilots of an AN-26 military aircraft, which crashed on Friday near the city of Chuhuiv (Kharkiv region), including with the dispatcher.
“I also believe that the talks between the pilot and the dispatcher, the talks in the cockpit should be published so that the relatives and friends of the victims know what happened and that the whole country knows it as well,” Gerashchenko said on the air of the Ukraine 24 television channel on Monday.
According to him, at present, the recordings of these talks, as well as other recordings from the flight recorder (“black box”) of the crashed plane, are being reviewed by specialists.
“The black boxes include records of the pilots’ talks with the dispatchers, there is a record of what the dispatchers said, what the pilots said in the cockpit in the last seconds before the tragedy, and also a record of the technical parameters of the aircraft’s glider engines,” Gerashchenko said.
As reported, at about 20:50 on September 25, on the Kyiv-Kharkiv-Dovzhansky highway, a plane crash occurred. During planned training flights, an AN-26 military aircraft fell and caught fire, which was landing at the airfield of a military unit in the town of Chuhuiv, Kharkiv region.
There were 27 people (20 cadets and seven officers of the Kharkiv University of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine named after Kozhedub) on board. Twenty-six people died. One cadet is in the hospital in a moderate condition.
According to the State Bureau of Investigations (SBI), the following versions of the investigation are being verified: a catastrophe due to a technical malfunction of the aircraft’s units; catastrophe due to improper performance of duties by the crew; improper performance of official duties by persons who were responsible for flight control; inadequate maintenance of the aircraft and its preparation for the light.
