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Crashed Superjet 100 ‘Black Box’ Recovered – Media

© RIA Novosti . Alexander Utkin / Go to the mediabankThe plane slammed into a steep side of Mount Salak near Jakarta
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The Indonesian authorities have confirmed they have found the cockpit voice recorders of the crashed Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger jet at the bottom of a steep valley at Mount Salak, the ANTARA News agency said.

MOSCOW, May 16 (RIA Novosti) – The Indonesian authorities have confirmed they have found the cockpit voice recorders of the crashed Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger jet at the bottom of a steep valley at Mount Salak, the ANTARA News agency said.

The plane slammed into a steep side of Mount Salak near Jakarta shortly after take-off on a demonstration flight on May 9. All 45 people on board were killed.

“A joint team from the army's Kopassus special force and the Indonesia Rock Climbing Federation discovered the black box at the site of the crash on Tuesday,” ANTARA News quoted a military official as saying.

The Indonesian military said the black box was severely damaged by the crash and only contained the cockpit voice recorder. It did not contain the vital flight data recorder, which is still missing.

"[The two black box parts] are supposed to be side by side, but because the impact of the crash was so powerful, the two got separated," National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) chief Tatang Kurniadi told The Jakarta Post.

"The black box part retrieved was scorched. It wasn't its original orange color anymore. It was black," said National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) air transport safety head Masruri said.

Yury Slyusar, head of a special commission set up by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to investigate the crash, said the memory bank of the cockpit voice recorder was safe. Experts have already started listening to the recording, he added.

Investigators are now looking for the flight data recorder, which will give them vital clues about the workings of the aircraft’s engines, controls and systems and its speed, height and attitude when it crashed, KNKT chief Tatang Kurniadi said.

Indonesian aviation officials earlier said the investigation of the Superjet 100 crash may take up to a year.

The Sukhoi Superjet is the first commercial plane to be designed and built in Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union two decades ago.

The aircraft is considered by many in the industry to be Russia's last hope for maintaining a commercial aircraft manufacturing capability. Built in partnership with Italy's Alenia Aeronautica, the aircraft has a high percentage of foreign-built components and subsystems.

 

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