Recorder of Downed Russian Su-24 Unsealed
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Russian Defense Ministry reported before unsealing the flight recorder of the Su-24 bomber downed by Turkey that the Russian military invited experts from 14 nations to work on the device, but only two of them accepted their invitations.
It was back on November 24 that Turkey shot down the Russian warplane as it was conducting an anti-terrorist mission in a region close to the Turkish border. However, Ankara claimed it used force in response to a 17-second violation of its airspace.
For its part, Moscow denied that any violation happened, a statement that the flight recorder may help to confirm. The device was recovered by Syrian and Russian troops shortly after the incident and transported to Russia for investigation. In addition, Moscow pledged that the study of the flight recorder would be carried out with maximum transparency to avoid any shadow of doubt that it had been tampered with.
The unsealing of the flight recorder was performed on camera on Friday. Technicians extracted three circuit boards with memory chips, some of which appeared to be damaged. Lieutenant General Sergey Baynetov, who heads the flight safety service of the Russian armed forces, told journalists that investigators would soon inform how much information could be read from the memory chips.
Eventually, the boards were locked in a safe after extraction. The commission said a preliminary report into their findings may be expected Monday.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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