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Tengrinews.kz – Vice Minister of Transport Talgat Lastayev named the deadline for completion of the investigation into the causes of the crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) plane near Aktau in December 2024.
"According to the requirements and standards recommended by ICAO, the investigation lasts for 1 year. Accordingly, the final report on the investigation should be completed by December of this year," Lastayev said at a government briefing.
The Vice Minister of Transport was unable to comment on the progress of the criminal investigation into the crash.
"The criminal investigation is already the prerogative of the prosecutor's office. There is an operational investigative group that is directly dealing with this issue," he said.
Baku-Grozny plane crash near Aktau: what happened?
Azerbaijan Airlines plane, flying from Baku (Azerbaijan) to Grozny (Russia), crashed three kilometers from Aktau at 11:30 AM local time on December 25. The passenger flight was unable to land in Grozny due to heavy fog, first it was redirected to Makhachkala, and then to Aktau.
Earlier, The Ministry of Transport of Kazakhstan has published a report with preliminary findings from the investigation into the crash of the Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) aircraft, which crashed on December 25 near Aktau.
