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1st LD: Deciphering flight recorder of Su-24 downed by Turkey currently impossible due to internal damages: Russia

Xinhua, December 21, 2015 Adjust font size:

It is currently impossible to decipher the flight recorder of Russia's Su-24 fighter jet downed by Turkey as the microchips have been damaged, the Russian Defense Ministry said Monday here.

"Decoding of the data from the microchips is impossible at this point due to internal damages, and we are considering asking for help from Russia's specialized scientific institutions to read the data," Sergei Bainetov, head of the ministry's flight safety department, told a press briefing.

He added that this work will take a "substantially long time." Endi