MOSCOW. Dec 27 (Interfax) - Technical documentation is being impounded from the Irkut Corporation over the Antonov An-12 crash near Irkutsk.
"Technical documentation of the airplane, pilots' logbooks and samples of the fuel the airplane used on its last mission are being impounded from the Irkut Corporation," Russian Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin told Interfax on Friday.
Workers of the Irkutsk aircraft plant who fueled the An-12 and prepared it for the mission are being interviewed.
Information has been collected about the persons who could have stayed onboard the airplane at the crash moment - six crewmembers and three technicians, Markin said.
The An-12 of the Irkut Corporation on a return flight from Novosibirsk crashed near the Batareinaya railroad station in its approach for landing at the Irkutsk-2 airport at about 9:45 p.m. local time on December 26. The plane was delivering aircraft components.
The plane disappeared from radar screens when it was one kilometer away from the runway. The falling plane hit two military depots and sustained partial damage. The Irkut Corporation said the plane had nine people aboard, including six crewmembers and three technicians.
The East Siberian transportation investigative department of the Russian Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under part 3 article 263 of the Russian Criminal Code (violation of the rules of air transportation safety and aircraft operation causing two or more deaths by negligence).