MOSCOW. Dec 27 (Interfax) - The investigation has questioned some witnesses to the Russian Defense Ministry's Tupolev Tu-154 plane crash, including a person who videotaped the plane's fall into the Black Sea, Russian Investigative Committee spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko told Interfax.
"New witnesses to the plane crash have been identified and questioned, including the person who videotaped the aircraft's takeoff, flight and crash into the sea. Apart from this video, investigators have also retrieved the videos of the Tu-154 landing at the Sochi international airport, its taxiing toward the parking position, and its passengers' undergoing border control procedures," Petrenko said.
Investigators have also confiscated samples of fuel with which the aircraft was refueled in Sochi, and these samples will undergo the necessary analysis, Petrenko said. Also, several dozen forensic medical, DNA, and other analyses have been ordered, she said.
"The area from the Sochi international airport's airfield toward the coastline along the aircraft's flight path has been carefully examined, and house-to-house inquiries have been carried out to identify witnesses to the accident," she said.