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Old 2nd Mar 2008, 19:28
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Originally Posted by jetopa
Sources close to the only surviving cockpit crewmember indicate, that Kasachstan’s Authorities hastily destroyed the remaining de-icing fluids that were used during the night of the accident. They apparently neither allowed foreign investigators to take samples of the fluid, nor did they allow them to collect a sample of the accident aircraft’s structure for further metallurgical analysis…
If that is so, then that would have constituted violations of Clauses 3.2 and 3.3 of ICAO Annex 13.

Originally Posted by jetopa
Russia’s MAK is still in possession of the flight data and cockpit voice recorders, but do not grant German or Canadian Authorities access to them for detailed data readout.
That would also be a violation of Clause 3.3 were it to be true, based on the rights of participation laid out in Clause 5.18

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