Systems of crashed FlyDubai jet functioned properly: investigators

All systems functioned properly when a FlyDubai passenger jet crashed in southern Russia earlier this month, the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) said Tuesday.

"The preliminary analysis of flight recorders has so far not revealed any failure of systems and components of the aircraft or its engines," said the IAC, the civil aviation supervisory body of the Commonwealth of Independent States of the former Soviet Union.

On March 19, the Dubai Aviation Corporation Flight 981, a Boeing 737-800 en route from the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) Dubai to Russia's Rostov-on-Don, crashed at the city airport, killing all 62 people on board.

The aircraft had a valid airworthiness certificate, had passed the necessary maintenance and was not defective at the time of departure, the commission added.

The commission said it had sent the manufacturer Boeing a request to provide technical documentation necessary for the assessment of the jet's performance, adding that an investigative commission with the participation of UAE experts would continue collecting and examining available data.

The committee also denied earlier media reports quoting alleged cockpit voice recordings, which indicated that the crash had resulted from a quarrel between pilots.

The IAC said the decoding of the crew communications was ongoing, with more than one hour transcribed so far. It stressed, however, the information from cockpit voice recorders cannot be disclosed in accordance with Russian and international rules of accident investigation. Endi