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According to information from Ekot, the Accident Investigation Board believes that diving in Estonia is needed to obtain new information on how the ferry sank. Something that Jonas Bäckstrand, deputy director general of the Swedish Accident Investigation Board, does not want to comment on:
– We’ll go out with a press release at 2pm on Friday, he tells DN.
Jonas Bäckstrand says that the Accident Investigation Board will tell you how far you have come in investigative work and where you are at the moment. The Accident Investigation Board has participated, among other things, in previously unreleased films of the dives made by the film crew behind “Estonia: The Discovery That Changes Everything”.
– Without commenting on exactly what we saw, I can say that it gave us a better overview having seen the film in the rough. We have also re-examined the Estonian bow visor and have met relatives.
M / s Estonia plunged into severe weather on September 28, 1994 while traveling from Tallinn to Stockholm. Of the 989 on board, 852 died, of which 501 were Swedish.
Would it be important to do dives?
– I don’t want to comment on that, but when new evidence comes out, as it has now, it is important that the new information be examined. How to do this is another matter.
The Accident Investigation Board will begin a series of interviews with the more than 40 Swedes who survived the disaster and are still alive. This will be done early next year.
The Ekot information that It may be a matter of new dives that Mikael Oscarsson (KD) likes, who is involved in the issue of the sinking of Estonia:
– It is extremely gratifying if now there will be new dives because today we know that there are holes in the hull. The investigation of the previous accident found that there was no hole, says Mikael Oscarsson, who is a member of the Defense Committee and the Defense Committee.
How important are the new dives?
– They are absolutely crucial in moving forward both out of respect for survivors and family members. The way I see it, it is completely unacceptable that a full examination of the helmet was never performed.
– It is also important to find out what happened and rule out conspiracy theories, says Mikael Oscarsson who emphasizes that everything in the investigation must be made public.
– It is very important that you can participate in everything.
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