MOSCOW — Providing grim confirmation for the darkest of rumors, Russian aviation officials acknowledged Tuesday that a crew member of the national airline Aeroflot was teaching his children how to fly when their jetliner slammed into a Siberian mountain last month, killing all 75 people aboard.
Following established international procedures, the government commission investigating the March 22 crash would not say explicitly that the children caused the crash of the Airbus A-310, which had left Moscow for Hong Kong on a regularly scheduled flight. It usually takes months before all data is analyzed fully enough to reach firm conclusions.
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