Falcon flight recorders won't be opened before French experts' arrival - IAC
MOSCOW. Oct 21 (Interfax) - Experts of the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) will open the flight recorders of the Falcon plane which crashed at the Vnukovo airport late on Monday after French experts' arrival, an IAC spokesman said.
"The IAC has made the decision not to open the flight recorders before French experts' arrival. Further investigation will proceed in cooperation with French colleagues, in compliance with the ICAO standards and with an agreement between the IAC and France's BEA air accident investigation bureau, and on the basis of long-established cooperation," the spokesman said.
He said the BEA has appointed a commissioner for investigating the Falcon crash and five advisors, representing the BEA, Dessault - the plane's developer, and the air company Unijet. They are expected to arrive in Moscow late on Tuesday.
The BEA said that three experts would be sent to Moscow on Tuesday.
Christophe de Margerie, the head of the French oil company Total, was killed when a Flacon plane collided with a snowplow at the Vnukovo airport late on Monday.
All four people aboard the plane were killed. A criminal investigation was started by the Russian Investigative Committee's Main Investigative Department.
The flight recorders have been retrieved and taken to the IAC's research and technical center.
