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Moscow Inter-Regional Transport Investigations Directorate is carrying out a pre-investigating check into the death of a seriously sick girl aged 1 aboard a plane travelling from Moscow to Mineralnye Vody.

According to preliminary data, about 9 PM, on 20 December 2013, an ambulance delivered the little girl from Kabardino-Balkaria, who had taken another course of treatment in one of Moscow research institutes, and her aunt accompanied by doctors aboard the plane at Vnukovo airport. The girl felt not well, the resuscitation did not work and the child died. The preliminary cause of death is pulmonary edema.

Investigators immediately organized a number of checks necessary to find all the circumstances of the incident.

During the check investigators are going to give legal evaluation to the actions of doctors at the hospital, where the child had been treated as they have reasons to think that the girl was in a very serious condition and had not to be transported.

A procedural decision will be made following the check.