CAIRO (Sputnik) – Flight recorders of the Russian airliner that crashed in Egypt on Saturday have no significant damages, Russian transport Minister Maxim Sokolov said Saturday.
"There are minor technical damages. But there were no thermal impact as the Egyptian representatives say," Sokolov said.
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He added that black boxes were not opened yet.
On Saturday, the Russian Kogalymavia Airbus A321 passenger airliner, with 217 passengers and seven crew members on board, crashed in Egypt, leaving no survivors.
