The FINANCIAL — WARSAW. Poland's special envoy to the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC), Edmund Klich, will visit Moscow on October 18 to study the committee's probe into the crash in April of a Polish presidential plane in western Russia, RIA Novosti informs.
Klich and other Polish experts working on a probe of the deadly crash, which killed 96 people, earlier expressed their dissatisfaction with the documents provided by the Russian side. Most of the complaints concerned a lack of technical details about the Severny airport in Smolensk at which the plane was to land.
"On October 18 I will fly to Moscow. On October 19, the IAC will give us the draft report. On Thursday I will return to Poland," Klich told journalists.
"From that moment, the Polish side will begin to formally assess the IAC report," the Polish expert added.
Klich will be accompanied by a representative of the Polish governmental commission investigating the tragedy.
The worn-out Tu-154 that crashed near the western Russian city of Smolensk while carrying then president Lech Kaczynski and other senior Polish officials to a commemoration ceremony of the 1940 Katyn massacre.
Russian and Polish investigators and experts have been jointly investigating the causes of the crash. Polish military prosecutors conduct a separate probe.
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