Egyptian analysts have begun examining the contents of two black boxes recovered from a Russian airliner that crashed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, and said it could take days to retrieve the data.
A Reuters reporter at the civil aviation ministry saw analysts leaving the technical analysis unit who confirmed that they had begun looking at the black boxes.
The Airbus A321 carrying 224 passengers crashed into a mountainous area of Sinai peninsula shortly after losing radar contact near cruising altitude, killing all aboard. The airliner operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia under the brand name Metrojet, was flying from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg in Russia when it went down in central Sinai soon after daybreak, the aviation ministry said.
Egyptian and Russian authorities said it was too early to draw any conclusions about the cause of the crash.
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