Moscow – Russian investigators have been not being able to obtain information from the black box of the Russian warplane shot down by Turkey, Air Force General, Gen. Sergei Bainetov, has said.
The fighter plane was shot down near the Syrian border on Nov. 24 by Turkish fighter jet.
“Reading data from the memory cards has not been possible because of internal damage,” Bainetov, deputy head of the Russian Air Force’s flight safety service, said on Monday.
He said that the work would take a long time.
Russian said on Friday that it would release the data from the black box recording device on Monday.
It also said that the analysis might be complicated by damage to the device, which was located at the rear of the plane, near where it was shot by a Turkish fighter jet.
Russia maintains that its warplane never crossed into Turkish airspace and the black box analysis was expected to show whether that is true.
Turkey, a NATO member state, alleges that the Russian plane crossed over a sliver of Turkish territory that juts down into Syria.
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The incident had caused a strain to the traditionally warm relations between the countries with Russia responding with economic and travel sanctions against Turkey. (dpa/NAN)
