Data recorder on Russian jet downed by Turkey badly damaged

With the examination of the flight data recorder, Moscow wanted to prove that the shot down fighter jet has not violated Turkish airspace.

Investigators in Moscow said Monday they are unable to retrieve any information from the destroyed plane’s damaged black box – thwarting Russia’s hopes for finding evidence of the Kremlin’s account of what happened.

“The readout of data from memory blocks is impossible at this point due to internal damages”, Lt. Gen. Sergei Bainetov, head of the Defense Ministry’s flight safety department, said in a press conference on Monday, according to Sputnik.

“The commission is contemplating calling upon specialised Russian research institutions, which have the ability to extract information directly from the microchips’ crystals”.

“Unfortunately, this work will take a rather long time, but we will do all we can to succeed”, Bainetov added.

They were Russia’s first combat casualties in its bombing campaign in Syria that was launched on September 30.

Putin has said an analysis of the black box would help determine the downed jet’s flight path and position, which Ankara and Moscow have furiously disagreed upon.

Russian Federation denies allegations of Turkey, the Jet was invaded before his firing in the Turkish airspace and thus constituted a threat to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation country. President Vladimir Putin recently declared the launch was a “hostile act” in Turkey.

Russian Federation has imposed a series of economic sanctions on Turkey, banning the import of some Turkish goods, imposing restrictions on travel, barring some Turkish companies from doing business in Russian Federation and suspending a $12 million gas pipeline project between the nations.