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    CIS STATES TO SEND EXPERTS TO PROBE SUDAN PLANE CRASHES

    RIA Novosti, Russia
    14:45 | 30/ 06/ 2008

    World

    Experts from the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC), a civil
    aviation body for ex-Soviet states, will take part in a probe into
    recent crashes of Soviet-made transport planes in Sudan, the IAC said
    on Monday.

    "We have not received an official request from Sudan, but when we
    do, our experts, in line with international agreements, will fly
    to crash sites [in Sudan] to participate in the investigation,"
    the spokesman said.

    A Soviet-made An-12 cargo plane with eight people on board crashed
    mid-flight from Khartoum to Sudan's southern capital Juba last
    Friday. One crewmember, a local Sudanese, survived, while seven others
    including four Ukrainians and one Armenian were killed.

    On Monday, a Soviet-made Il-76 cargo plane crashed immediately after
    taking-off from Khartoum airport, exploding into a fireball and
    killing all four Russian crewmembers.

    The IAC, formed on the basis of an intergovernmental Agreement on civil
    aviation signed in 1991, comprises Commonwealth of Independent States
    members Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan,
    Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine.
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