The Ministry of defense of Ukraine: the Delay in the transport in a safe place Ukrainians from Nepal amounted to a day
The delay for technical reasons during transport operations in a safe place for Residents of Ukraine from Nepal was only a day, said the ACTING commander of the air forces of the Ukrainian army Sergey Drozdov.
Drozdov said that in the beginning perform on the application was filed on landing at the airport of Nepal. As of April 30, the queue for boarding the Ukrainian Il-76 in Kathmandu was 3 may. Thus, According to Drozdova, repairs damage of the right engine, the crew ended may 4, RIA " Novosti ".
"Delay fault plane was only one day," said the ACTING commander of the air forces of the Ukrainian army at a press conference on Thursday. He added that the Plane that day could not fly to Kathmandu, because " it was decided to limit landings of aircraft that weights over 100 tons, the Il-76 has a mass of about 150 tons." When the Plane took off, he had to spend eight hours on the landing, loading, and departure from the airport in Kathmandu due to the heavy workload only working the runway in Nepal. According to his statement, common before the media information that is directed from Ukraine spare part for restoration does not fit, is not true." So that we do not procrastinate this information that was sent a replacement part that does not fit, from the tractor or something else, all the parts are marked with item and it was delivered immediately what is necessary, " He said, adding that quite a lot of time was spent on customs clearance of spare parts and tuning the engine after installing a new pump. Before Thursday the Acting Head of the SSES of Ukraine Zoryan Shkiriak said that the main mistake During transportation to a safe place of Ukrainians from Nepal was the lack of a unified control center. Yesterday the Minister of internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov has acknowledged that his country was not ready for transportation to a safe place its Residents from Nepal. The last few days in Ukraine closely followed the evacuation of citizens from Nepal, which was delayed due to breakdowns of the Ukrainian Il-76. So, on April 30 for transportation to a safe place of Ukrainians from Nepal flew the Plane Il-76 of the Ministry of defense of Ukraine. When landing in new Delhi on may 1, he broke a wheel. Parts for the restoration had to be moved from the Ukraine. The plane was able to pick up the Ukrainians from Kathmandu only on 5 may. It is assumed that evacuees from Nepal citizens will arrive in Kiev on may 6 around midnight.
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