Airbus joins probe of helicopter crash in Brovary

This was stated on the air of the telethon by Acting Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko, Ukrinform reports.

"We are awaiting the results of technical examinations. We seek to receive the results of these examinations as soon as possible and, accordingly, the conclusion of the investigation. At the moment, a joint group of investigators is working and, I think, in the near future, the Prosecutor General's Office will inform the public of the first results," he said.

"When the flight recorders are deciphered, we will be able to say more concretely what happened on board or beyond it," added Klymenko.

He also said that the Airbus manufacturing company had joined the investigation.

In particular, a group of Ukrainian experts went traveled to France where, together with French specialists, they worked on deciphering the flight recorders.

According to Klymenko, the investigation will last up to two months.

He also noted that after the plane crash in Brovary, the ministry’s security system was revised: "We have prohibited the movement of top leadership on helicopters – only by road transport, until the investigation is finished, until we t know for sure why that helicopter went down."

As reported by Ukrinform, on the morning of January 18, in Brovary a helicopter belonging to the State Emergency Service carrying nine people on board, including Minister of Internal Affairs Denys Monastyrskyi, his First Deputy Yevhen Yenin, and State Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Yuriy Lubkovych, crashed near a kindergarten and a residential building.

According to the latest data from the State Emergency Service, 14 bodies were found at the crash site, including that of a child and 10 people who were on board.