Yak-42 flight recorder found

Archive September 08, 2011, 12:59

“We see a flight recorder now. It is found,” Shoigu said

THE SETTLEMENT TUNOSHNA (Yaroslavl region), September 8 (Itar-Tass) —— The divers have found a flight recorder of an airplane Yak-42, which crashed outside Yaroslavl, Minister of Emergency Situations Sergei Shoigu said on Thursday.

“We see a flight recorder now. It is found,” Shoigu said at a meeting of the emergency response headquarters, which President Dmitry Medvedev chaired at the air crash site.

The minister noted that the condition of the flight recorder cannot assessed, because it is kept in the tail part being underwater.

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