Russian Flight Recorders Reveal Little
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: August 26, 2004
Filed at 7:49 a.m. ET
MOSCOW (AP) -- The recorders extracted from the wreckage of two planes that crashed nearly simultaneously have not revealed reliable information on the disasters' causes, a top Russian official was quoted as saying Thursday.
Vladimir Yakovlev, the Russian president's envoy for the southern region, where one of the planes crashed, also said that the main theory about the catastrophe ``all the same remains terrorism,'' the ITAR-Tass news agency said.
Officials have said that several possibilities were being investigated as the cause of the crashes that killed 89 people late Tuesday, including inferior fuel and human error and that they believed the planes' ``black box'' recorders would clarify the situation.
However, Yakovlev said that the recorders ``had gone out of service already before the fall of the airliners,'' ITAR-Tass said...
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