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US Transport Agency Sending Team to Russia to Assist in Boeing Crash Probe

© REUTERS / StringerInvestigators, members of Russia's Emergencies Ministry and other services work at the crash site of a Boeing 737-800 operated by Dubai-based budget carrier Flydubai, at the airport of Rostov-On-Don, Russia, March 19, 2016.
Investigators, members of Russia's Emergencies Ministry and other services work at the crash site of a Boeing 737-800 operated by Dubai-based budget carrier Flydubai, at the airport of Rostov-On-Don, Russia, March 19, 2016. - Sputnik International
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The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is preparing to send a team of investigators to Russia to assist in the probe of a recent crash involving a Boeing passenger jet operated by FlyDubai.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The team will consist of two NTSB investigators, as well as personnel from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Boeing, Williams said, adding the US team was scheduled to depart later today.

Emergencies Ministry members work at the crash site of a Boeing 737-800 Flight FZ981 operated by Dubai-based budget carrier Flydubai, at the airport of Rostov-On-Don, Russia, March 19, 2016. - Sputnik International
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"The NTSB is sending investigators to provide assistance," the agency’s public affairs officer Terry Williams told RIA Novosti.

Emergencies Ministry members work at the crash site of a Boeing 737-800 Flight FZ981 operated by Dubai-based budget carrier Flydubai, at the airport of Rostov-On-Don, Russia, March 19, 2016. - Sputnik International
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NTSB announced earlier that it was going to join investigators from the Moscow-based Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC or MAK) that are carrying out the inquiry together with the Russian Investigative Committee.

The FlyDubai Boeing 737-800 crashed on landing at Rostov-on-Don airport at around 3:50 a.m. local time (00:50GMT), killing all 62 people onboard, most of them Russians.

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