Russian rescuers trawling the Black Sea on Wednesday found the second black box from a Syria-bound military plane that crashed at the weekend with 92 people on board, authorities say.
“The second onboard recorder from the Tu-154 plane has been found and raised from the seabed,” the defense ministry says in a statement to Russian news agencies.
The discovery of the black box comes the day after rescuers found the primary inflight recorder and should help provide vital clues as investigators try to work out what caused the fatal crash.
Russia’s FSB security service has said it is looking into four main suspected causes: pilot error, technical failure, faulty fuel and a foreign object in the engine.
The agency said that so far there were no indications to suggest terrorism was behind the crash, but did not rule it out entirely.
— AFP
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