Some data have been extracted from one black box of the Russian passenger airliner, Airbus A321 Saint Petersburg which crashed in Sinai, Egypt on Saturday, October 31, 2015.
This development was made known on Wednesday, November 4, 2015 by the civil aviation minister, Mohamed Hossam Kamal who disclosed that experts will now analyse the black box.
Kamal said: “The data from the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) has been extracted and validated. It will now be subject to detailed analysis by the investigators.
“The other black box — the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) — has been partially damaged and a lot of work is required in order to extract the data from it.”
Experts launched an investigation of the black boxes on Tuesday, November 3, 2015 and according to the, the process could last several weeks or even months.
The plane operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia crashed about 23 minutes after taking off from the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
All 224 people on board, mostly Russian tourists, were killed in one of the deadliest air disasters involving Airbus.
There has been claims by the US Intelligence that the plane was brought down by a bomb planted by the ISIS militia group.
Barely five days after the crash, a cargo plane crashed on the banks of White River Nile in South Sudan in the early hours of Wednesday, November 4, 2015.
About 41 persons reportedly died including people who were at the River bank as at the time of the crashed.
