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    UKRAINE PREPARED TO JOIN INVESTIGATION OF CRASHED FIGHTER MIG-29 IN AZERBAIJAN

    Trend News Agency
    Feb 12 2008
    Azerbaijan

    Azerbaijan, Baku, 11 February / Trend News corr. K.Rmazanova / The
    Ukrainian Defense Ministry has expressed its willingness to join the
    investigation being carried out to reveal the cause of the crashed
    fighter jet MIG-29 in Azerbaijan. Neither the fighter jet nor the
    bodies of the pilots have been found as yet.

    " Azerbaijan did not appeal for aid," Ukrainian Defence Ministry
    reported to Trend on 11 February.

    The fighter jet MIG-29 of the Air Forces of Azerbaijan crashed
    during training on 29 January. Both pilots on board the fighter jet,
    Fakhraddin Asgarov and Afgan Aslanov died. A case has been filed by
    the Military Prosecutor of Azerbaijan.

    "What needs to be investigated is what state the fighter jet was in,
    and who updated and repaired it," Elena Lvova, the head of the Public
    Affairs Office of the Russian MIG Construction Cooperation, said. The
    Air Forces of Azerbaijan obtained the MIG- 29 jet in March 2007,
    modernized by Ukraine.

    The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry does not see any need to involve
    specialists from other countries. "We will invite them if it becomes
    necessary," Eldar Sabiroglu, head of the press-service reported.

    The MIG-29 jets which Azerbaijan uses as air space protection has
    previously crashed during training flights in Russia, Malaysia, Peru,
    Slovakia and Armenia.

    The MiG-29 "Fulcrum" ("Tochka Opori" in Russian) was designed and
    built to be a single-seater, supersonic, all-weather, air superiority
    fighter, with the MiG-31 "Foxhound", the latest and perhaps the last
    fighter production items from the Mikoyan Design Bureau. The primary
    role of the MiG-29 is to destroy air targets at a distances from 60
    to 200 km (30 to 110 NM), at all altitudes, on all profiles, in any
    weather, and under all ECM conditions. In addition, the basic MiG-29
    jet is capable of limited air-to-ground operations and its advanced
    versions have been optimized to attack both stationary and moving
    targets with precision guided ammunition.
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