SAO PAULO/MONTREAL: Russia has informed Brazil's aircraft investigation authority that it will not probe the crash of the Brazilian-made Embraer jet that killed mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin under inter
under international rules"at the moment", the Brazilian agency told Reuters on Tuesday .
Russia’s aviation authority was not obligated to say yes to CENIPA, but some former investigators said it should, as the US and other Western governments suspect the Kremlin of being behind the Aug 23 crash of the Embraer Legacy 600, which has a good safety record. According to the Montreal-based United Nations International Civil Aviation Organization , the flight from Moscow with a destination of St Petersburg was domestic, so it is not subject to international rules known throughout the industry by its legal name"Annex 13"."They are not obliged, only recommended to do that," CENIPA head Air Brigadier Marcelo Moreno told Reuters after the agency sent an email last week asking Russia whether it would open such a probe.
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