Cairo – Hossam Kamal, Egyptian Minister of Civil Aviation, said the last seven seconds of the cockpit voice recording on the Russian plane that crashed last month in Egypt would be sent abroad for analysis.
He said on Friday in Cairo that the recording would be analysed in one of the countries where the Airbus A321 was manufactured.
The minister said earlier in the week, a multi-national commission investigating the October 31 crash said that a noise was heard in the last second of the recording.
“This sound will be analysed by sophisticated devices, which are not available in most countries of the world.
“The full recording will not be transported outside Egypt,’’ he said without naming the country to which the recording would be sent.
The 18-year-old airliner was manufactured in Germany, while its engine was made in the U.S.
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British and U.S. officials have suggested that the plane had been downed by a bomb, while Egypt has repeatedly warned it is too early to determine the cause.
The Metroject flight was heading from the popular Sinai resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh to the Russian city of St Petersburg, when it crashed killing all 224 people on board.
Almost all victims were Russian. (dpa/NAN)