Azerbaijan, Baku, Oct. 5 / Trend A.Akhundov/
The Azerbaijani Insurance Company İpek Yolu Sıgorta is ready to make advance payments to the families of those died in the Azerbaijani aircraft crash in Afghanistan next week, Chairman of the Board Niazi Safarli told Trend on Wednesday.
"If the company gets appeals and the necessary documents are submitted properly, we will be able to make advance payments next week," Safarli said.
He said that the amount of the advance payment will be determined at the end of the week.
"We will be able to make advance payments after the court's decision," he said. "It must be taken within six months after the event. Now it is the third month."
The IL-76 airplane of the Azerbaijani Silk Way Air Company, crashed in Afghanistan in the night of July 6. Nine crew members and a total of 18 tons of cargo were onboard the plane which was en route from Baku to Bagram. The airplane picked up its cargo at the Baku Heydar Aliyev International Airport and took off at 21:26 (local time).
The airplane was built in 2005 with a carrying capacity of 40 tons and passed a full inspection in February 2011. It passed the subsequent inspection in June 2011.
The airplane had been insured by Azerbaijani İpək Yolu Sığorta Insurance Company.
The Interstate Aviation Committee in Moscow is now analyzing the flight data recorders to determine causes of the crash.
The names and ages of those who perished in the plane crash are:
1. Pilot Sergey Kuzmin (42)
2. Second pilot Oleg Marshihin (32)
3. Navigator Igor Chzhen (45)
4. Flight Engineer Vladimir Shatobin (42)
5. Airborne radio operator Ahmedjan Hajayev (56)
6. Flight operator Elnur Mahmudov (30)
7. Flight operator Tapdig Gahramanov (47)
8. Aeromechanic Afghan Rahimov (31)
9. Aeromechanic Mehman Huseynov (49)
Mahmudov, Gahramanov, Ragimov, Huseynov and Marshihin are Azerbaijani citizens.