DONETSK – Donetsk Regional Prosecutor Volodymyr Vyshynsky has said that three of the five people killed in Wednesday's plane crash at Donetsk Airport have been identified.
He said they had virtually no doubt about the identity of three of
the victims, and had a good idea who the other two were. However, they
still needed to complete the identification procedure for the latter,
the prosecutor said.
Vyshynsky said that all the victims were male.
“As for the unregistered passengers, Odesa investigators are looking
into this matter, they are trying to establish the reasons for which
these passengers were not registered for the flight,” he said.
As reported, the An-24 aircraft of South Airlines on flight from
Odesa to Donetsk overshot the runway at Donetsk Sergey Prokofiev
International Airport on Wednesday evening. The aircraft overturned and
the aircraft’s fuselage broke. A total of 52 people were on board the
aircraft, including eight crewmembers.
Five people were killed, and nine were hospitalized.
It was a charter flight, and all the passengers were football fans
heading for Donetsk to watch Shakhtar Donetsk play Borussia Dortmund.
A criminal case has been opened into the crash on charges of
violating the air safety rules that resulted in the death of people.
Ukraine’s Donetsk Region Prosecutor’s Officer is in charge of the
inquiry.
