Brazilian Air Force provided support in the investigation and received representatives from Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Russia.
The Center for Investigation and Prevention of Aeronautical Accidents (Cenipa) concluded on Monday the analysis of the black boxes from the Embraer plane that crashed in Kazakhstan on December 25.
The equipment arrived on Brazilian soil on January 1 and began to be analyzed the following day. According to interlocutors involved in the investigation, this Saturday the “extraction, acquisition and validation of the data contained in the two recorders” was concluded.
The aircraft, manufactured by Embraer, took off from Baku (Azerbaijan) on December 25 and crashed while attempting to land in Aktau, Kazakhstan. The Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 was bound for the Russian city of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, but was forced to make an emergency landing near the city of Aktau.
In all, 38 people died and another 29 were injured. According to the Brazilian Air Force (FAB), investigators from Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Russia came to Brazil to monitor the work. These investigators followed the data decoding process and, according to sources, began returning to their countries of origin this Saturday.
The extracted data will be delivered to the Aircraft Accident Investigation Authority of Kazakhstan – the agency responsible for analyzing and investigating the accident. There are still no details about what was heard in the recordings. “All analysis and conclusions that will be published in the Final Report of this aeronautical investigation are the sole responsibility of the Kazakh Investigation Authority,” the FAB said upon the arrival of the black boxes.
