MAGADAN, Russian Far East. Dec 7 (Interfax-AVN) - It will take several days to decode on-board recorders found in the rubble of the IL-76 Candid plane that crashed near the town of Okhotsk in the Khabarovsk territory on December 2, a specialist of the interdepartmental commission investigating the crash said on Friday.
The decoding boils down to writing down speech information, i.e. records of conversations between the plane's crew and ground services. The decoded data will be delivered to Moscow in a few days and after that the commission will make the final conclusion on the matter.
Servicemen of the Magadan search-and-rescue unit returned from the tragedy site on Thursday. According to Lieutenant Colonel Vasily Matveichuk, deputy chief of the Magadan regional department on civil defense and emergencies, the plane cracked up in the air at the altitude of 7,060 meters. No signs of fire were found in the cockpit but they are in the place where cargo was located. It will be possible to announce the crash reasons only after the investigation ends, recorders are decoded and forensic medicine experts deliver their report, Matveichuk said.
The remains of the deceased are inspected by specialists of the Magadan regional forensic medicine bureau.