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Old 15th Feb 2003, 23:31
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IL-86 Grounded?

Is there any further info concerning the following news item?

>Thu Feb 13, 6:23 AM ET
>
>MOSCOW - A regional aviation agency has suspended permission for the
>Il-86, one of Russia's largest and most widely used passenger jets, to
>fly pending an investigation into a crash that killed 14 crew members
>last summer, an aviation official said Thursday.
>
>Rudolf Teimurazov, head of the crash investigation section of the
>Interstate Aviation Committee, said the probe could take up to a month
>more to complete. In the meantime, the safety certification for the
>airliner has been suspended, he said in a telephone interview.
>
>The interstate committee oversees air traffic in the Commonwealth of
>Independent States, a grouping of former Soviet republics.
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