Volgograd court rules that the region underneath the destroyed aircraft has jurisdiction Relatives of Volgograd residents who were killed in a plane crash near Tula appealed a decision by the Volgograd Regional Court that they cannot sue there, but in the Tula region. As was earlier reported on Kasparov.Ru on March 13th, and quoting Aleksandr Chernov, press secretary for the Volgograd Regional Court, the court decided that the plane crash was not the fault of the airline company: the engines worked, and the airplane was not defective. It crashed because of a suicide attack. In such a case the defendant is subject to the jurisdiction of the territory in the Russian Federation where the terrorist act was carried out. The trial lasted three years, resulting in four volumes of documents and over twenty hearings concerning a lawsuit by Volgograd residents whose relatives were killed in a plane crash near Tula in 2004. Recall that it was an evening flight from Moscow's Domodedovo airport that never made it to Volgograd, having been blown up by terrorists over the Tula region. Two years after the tragedy, families of the victims appealed to the Dzerzhinsky District Court of Volgograd, demanding the prosecution of the joint-stock company «Domodedovo Airport Aviation Security», and non-pecuniary damages in the amount of three million rubles from the company. According to Tamara Gurova, a relative of one of the slain, they began litigating «only out of principle, not for material gain, only for the sake of justice.» The only wish of relatives is that the airline is punished for allowing the suicide bombers to board. During litigation, the court decided in favor of the victims' relatives three times, but the defendant appealed each time, denying their guilt. On February 5th, 2009, the Volgograd Regional Court of Appeals overturned the decision of the district court. It turns out that the relatives of the dead were suing in the wrong court. According to Gurova, the victims' relatives are preparing an appeal for a supervisory review. In «Kasparov.ru»
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