INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
One of the survivors of an airplane that crash-landed in Afghanistan, pilot Arkady Grachev, has denied reports that the plane allegedly was
carrying $1.2 million.&You should remember the mentality of the Afghan people
They came to help us and they had to be thanked somehow; we gave them some cash,& Grachev told journalists in Moscow, TASS news agency
reported.Pilot Dmitry Belyakov, has blamed the incident on a technical malfunction that led to a fuel problem.&The cause of the crash was a
In all likelihood, a problem with fuel
The presence of ice, which disrupted the flow from the main tanks to the feeder tanks,& he said.Belyakov noted that the pilots had been
taking measures to prepare the aircraft to make an emergency landing up until the very last minutes before being forced to crash-land.&We
were busy with emergency landing procedures; we determined the most favorable place where it could be landed, and we did find such a place,
a flat mountain slope,& he added.The four people who survived the plane crash in Afghanistan & two pilots and two medics & were flown to
Moscow on Friday. Six people were on board the aircraft en route from Thailand to Moscow
The incident happened in Afghanistan&s northern Badakhshan province.The post Surviving pilot rejects reports plane that crashed in
Badakhshan was carrying $1.2 million first appeared on Ariana News.
