Second black box of crashed plane presumably found: Russian Emergencies Ministry

MOSCOW, Feb. 13 — Rescuers have presumably recovered the second
flight data recorder of the AN-148 passenger jet that crashed in the Moscow
region on Sunday, the Russian Emergencies Ministry said Monday.

“A flight data recorder has been found in the 18th sector (within the
search area). The Interstate Aviation Committee is now working to confirm
and identify it,” Sergey Poletykin, head of the ministry’s Moscow Region
Directorate, said during a meeting of the Governmental Disaster Management
Commission’s working group, according to a ministry statement. On Sunday,
an Antonov-148 of Saratov Airlines bound for the city Orsk in Russia’s
Orenberg Region bordering Kazakhstan crashed shortly after takeoff from
Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport, killing all people on board, including 65
passengers and six crew members. The other black box was found earlier,
according to the Emergencies Ministry.

A total of 780 people and 175 units of equipment are involved in the search
and rescue operations round the clock, the ministry said.It said nine
drones are being used to identify main places for search operations in an
area of more than 30 hectares over which the debris was scattered. In
addition, 20 snow mobiles have been provided to investigators and experts
of the Interstate Aviation Committee. – XINHUA