Duma transport committee chairman urges not to make hasty conclusions about ATR 72 aircraft. UTAir Avion de Transport Regional ATR-72-200, VP-BYZ, Flight UT-120, Tyumen

 

MOSCOW. April 2 (Interfax) - Head of the State Duma Transport Committee Yevgeny Moskvichyov has said the State Duma has created all the necessary legal conditions for flight safety, and one should investigate specific causes of the ATR 72 air crash near Tyumen.

"The main thing now is to understand what was the cause of the plane crash. Everything that needed to be done to increase flight safety has already been done by the State Duma," Moskvichyov said on Monday.

It is too soon to talk about the causes of the Tyumen air crash, they have yet to be ascertained, the committee chairman said.

"The theory that the ATR 72 model was not designed for flights in Russia is just words so far. There are dozens of such aircraft models in Russia. They were approved before being bought," Moskvichyov was quoted as saying by the United Russia faction in the State Duma.

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