Falcon black boxes contain recordings of last flight from Vnukovo airport - IAC
MOSCOW. Oct 23 (Interfax) - Experts of the Interstate Aviation Committee and French specialists, working in the presence of a Russian Investigative Committee official, examined the flight data recorders from the Falcon plane that crashed at Moscow's Vnukovo airport late on Monday and assessed their condition, the IAC said on its website on Wednesday evening.
"The onboard recorders bear no signs of mechanical and temperature-related damage. Following appropriate preparations, the information from the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder was successfully copied," the IAC said.
"Preliminary analysis of the registered data confirmed the presence of recordings related to the plane's last flight on October 20, 2014 on the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder," the committee said.
This information is now being analyzed and decrypted, it said.
The Falcon jet, carrying CEO of the French oil company Total Christophe de Margerie and three crew members, collided with a snow plough as it was trying to take off from Moscow's Vnukovo airport late on October 20. The plane then caught fire and crashed, killing all people on board.
A criminal inquiry has been opened into the accident. The snow plough operator, Vladimir Martynenko, has been detained and investigators will request that he be remanded into custody, the Investigative Committee said.