Several top flight safety officials fired after Domodedovo blast

18:58, 27 January 2011

MOSCOW. January 27. KAZINFORM Four high-ranking official from the Russian Gosavianadzor civil aviation supervision authority, Transport Supervision Service (Rostransnadzor) and the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya) have been fired after the Domodedovo explosion, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Thursday at a meeting on working out of proposals for enhancing transport safety and protection of infrastructure facilities; Kazinform refers to Itar-Tass.

"The RF transport minister came out with a proposal to dismiss from office the head of the Russian Federal Transport Supervision Service (Rostransnadzor), Gennady Kurzenkov," said Ivanov.

In addition, according to the RF deputy prime minister, Levitin by his order dismissed from office Yuri Tsybin - head of the state aviation safety supervision authority (Gosavianadzor) department for the Central Federal District, head of the transport security department of Rostransnadzor Alexander Sveshnikov, deputy head of the Rostransnadzor transport security department Sergei Poplavsky and deputy head of the Gosavianadzor department for the Central Federal District Valery Malesin.

All the 35 people killed in the Domodedovo airport blast on Monday have been identified, the information department of the Emergency Situations Ministry told Itar-Tass on Wednesday. There are eight foreigners among the fatalities: two Tajiks, one Uzbek, two Austrians, a Ukrainian, a German and a Briton. The bodies of 34 victims were identified by their relatives, and one fatality, a Briton, was identified by the documents found on him, according to the ministry.

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