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Russia's IAC Completes Data Retrieval From Crashed SSJ100 Flight Recorders

© REUTERS / City News "Moskva" / Go to the mediabankA view shows a damaged Aeroflot Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger plane after an emergency landing at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, Russia May 5, 2019
A view shows a damaged Aeroflot Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger plane after an emergency landing at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, Russia May 5, 2019 - Sputnik International
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia's Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) said Friday it had completed the retrieval of data from the "black boxes" of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger plane that crashed on May 5 at the Sheremetyevo airport, the received information is now being analyzed.

"The chairman of the IAC commission for the investigation of the crash of the RRJ-95B RA-89098 aircraft informs that the IAC Scientific-Technical Center has completed the decoding of data from on-board flight recorders [emergency and operational]. The received information is being analyzed," the committee said in a press release.

The Sukhoi SSJ100 aircraft of Aeroflot Airlines, center in the background, is seen after an emergency landing in Sheremetyevo airport outside Moscow, Russia, Monday, May 6, 2019 - Sputnik International
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An Aeroflot-operated SSJ100, bound for the northwestern Russian city of Murmansk, caught fire upon making an emergency landing at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport following on-board electronics failure experienced less than 30 minutes after the take-off on May 5.

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The accident left 41 out of the 78 people on board killed. The pilots' potential inexperience has been put forward as one of the possible causes of the tragedy.

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