Human error – most plausible version for Friday’s air crash, expert maintains

“The most plausible explanation for the plane crash of last Friday seems to be a human error,” Info-Prim Neo has been told by a Moldovan high-rank aviation officer, speaking on condition of anonymity. “The plane was driven by a Ukrainian citizen about which I don’t know where he learnt to fly,” says the reserve officer, hinting the version of technical malfunction is less trustable, as the plane took off after being repaired. The expert rules out the speculations that the cargo plane had too large a load, while the inflammability of those two tonnes of aircraft oil does not imply more risk than the car engine oil. Moldovan Prosecutor General Valeriu Gurbulea is quoted by Itar-Tass as stating that “the preliminary reports show on the fact that the necessary landing altitude was not observed.” Last Saturday, at a news conference, the Moldovan Civil Aviation Administration (ASAC) avoided to put forward a preliminary cause for the accident. The results are to be announced not earlier than in a week, said Iurie Zidu, the acting director of ASAC. Till disseminating this story, the official commission charged with probing the case managed to identify three from those 8 carbonized corpses of the Moldovan citizens Valentin Burghila, Nicolai Dimitrisin, Vadim Krasilnikov and Andrei Moisenko. The names of the Ukrainian citizens are Vyacheslav Vdovenko, Anatoly Voloshchuk, Valentin Gaiduk and Andrei Tikhonov. The cargo plane of the Sudanese company Kata Air Transport blasted when touching soil on Friday, after 22 PM, near the Chisinau airport. The explosion threw two victims away at more than 100 meters from the place of the crash. The aviation expert quoted by Info-Prim Neo excluded that the AN 32 would have touched power wires with its wing. The recorders have been found and are to be analyzed also by experts from abroad. The Moldovan authorities promise assistance to victims’ relatives.