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Yak-42 victim's leg is still in Turkey, Spain told
29/05/2018
TURKISH authorities claim they still have the remains of one of the Yak-42 Armed Forces air crash victims in their custody – 15 years after flight went down.
Spain's minister of defence María Dolores de Cospedal revealed this in a press release, but says she has no documentary evidence that it is true.
However, she has asked the National Court to open an inquiry in order to locate the remains and arrange for identification.
Cospedal's counterpart in Turkey says the 'remains' are a single human leg, which was eventually buried in a cemetery in Maçka without its owner ever having been confirmed.
According to Cospedal's department, this announcement was in the context of consultations between both countries' defence ministries, at the behest of a relative of one of the deceased, about whether any soldiers' remains were still on Turkish soil.
Turkey said that all DNA samples of the crash victims, and of their family members supplied to help with identification, have since been destroyed in accordance with national legislation.
The worst peacetime tragedy in Spain's military history, the Yak-42 – UM Airlines flight 4230 – was returning soldiers to the air base in Zaragoza (Aragón) on May 26, 2003 from a four-and-a-half-month mission in Afghanistan and Kyrgystan, when it crashed into Mount Pilav near the airport in Trabzon, close to the Black Sea in Turkey.
All 75 on board were killed, including 62 Spanish soldiers, 12 Ukrainian crew members and a Belarus national, Dmitri Molochka, who is believed to have been a civilian and representative of the airline.
Of the victims, three were women – all air hostesses – and 72 were men, one of whom was Iñaki López de Borbón, third cousin of the now-abdicated King Juan Carlos I.
The monument pictured above, created by local sculptor Cristiano Díez was set up for them in Burgos, since 20 of the 62 soldiers had been stationed at the air base in Castrillo del Val, Burgos province, at the time of their deaths.
Many of them had expressed very real concerns about the poor state of the aeroplane, owned by a Ukrainian airline and manufactured in Russia, before embarking – in fact, just one earlier complaint from a Norwegian soldier led to the ministry of defence in Oslo cancelling the contract with Yak-42, having heard that the aircraft which later crashed had 'loose panels, bare wires and oil leaking from the engines' and that the service men and women travelling in it were 'more scared on the flight than when deactivating land mines in Kabul'.
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TURKISH authorities claim they still have the remains of one of the Yak-42 Armed Forces air crash victims in their custody – 15 years after flight went down.
Spain's minister of defence María Dolores de Cospedal revealed this in a press release, but says she has no documentary evidence that it is true.
However, she has asked the National Court to open an inquiry in order to locate the remains and arrange for identification.
Cospedal's counterpart in Turkey says the 'remains' are a single human leg, which was eventually buried in a cemetery in Maçka without its owner ever having been confirmed.
According to Cospedal's department, this announcement was in the context of consultations between both countries' defence ministries, at the behest of a relative of one of the deceased, about whether any soldiers' remains were still on Turkish soil.
Turkey said that all DNA samples of the crash victims, and of their family members supplied to help with identification, have since been destroyed in accordance with national legislation.
The worst peacetime tragedy in Spain's military history, the Yak-42 – UM Airlines flight 4230 – was returning soldiers to the air base in Zaragoza (Aragón) on May 26, 2003 from a four-and-a-half-month mission in Afghanistan and Kyrgystan, when it crashed into Mount Pilav near the airport in Trabzon, close to the Black Sea in Turkey.
All 75 on board were killed, including 62 Spanish soldiers, 12 Ukrainian crew members and a Belarus national, Dmitri Molochka, who is believed to have been a civilian and representative of the airline.
Of the victims, three were women – all air hostesses – and 72 were men, one of whom was Iñaki López de Borbón, third cousin of the now-abdicated King Juan Carlos I.
The monument pictured above, created by local sculptor Cristiano Díez was set up for them in Burgos, since 20 of the 62 soldiers had been stationed at the air base in Castrillo del Val, Burgos province, at the time of their deaths.
Many of them had expressed very real concerns about the poor state of the aeroplane, owned by a Ukrainian airline and manufactured in Russia, before embarking – in fact, just one earlier complaint from a Norwegian soldier led to the ministry of defence in Oslo cancelling the contract with Yak-42, having heard that the aircraft which later crashed had 'loose panels, bare wires and oil leaking from the engines' and that the service men and women travelling in it were 'more scared on the flight than when deactivating land mines in Kabul'.
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