Main Black Box Of Crashed Russian Plane Found In Black Sea
Umer Jamshaid Published December 27, 2016 | 05:10 PM
SOCHI, Russia, , (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 27th Dec, 2016 ) - The main black box of the Syria-bound Russian military plane that crashed into the Black Sea with 92 people onboard has been found in a massive ongoing search operation, authorities said Tuesday.
"The main black box was found at 5:42 am Moscow time (0242 GMT) 1,600 metres from the shore at a depth of 17 metres," the defence ministry said in a statement, later adding that the device had arrived in the Moscow region to be deciphered by experts.
The Tu-154 jet, whose passengers included more than 60 members of the internationally renowned Red Army Choir, was heading to Russia's military airbase in Syria when it went down off the coast of Sochi shortly after take-off on Sunday.
Investigators have yet to confirm the cause of the crash, but officials have said that an act of terror was not being considered as a possible explanation. The finding of the black box comes as searchers are scrambling to recover bodies and remaining debris from the aircraft in an operation involving 192 divers, 45 vessels, 12 planes, five helicopters and 15 deepwater machines.
The defence ministry said that five plane fragments, including part of the fuselage and engine, were found overnight 30 metres (98 feet) under water at around 1,700 metres from the shore. It told Russian news agencies that searchers had later found an additional three fragments which included landing gear and a portion of the engine.
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