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 commission is studying the possibility of using the assistance of Russian specialized scientific institutions, which possess capability of reading data directly from the microchip”, Lt. Gen. Sergei Bainetov, head of the Defense Ministry’s flight safety department, said at a briefing in Moscow.
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Military officials had warned on Friday, December 18, when the opening of the black box was broadcast on national television, that its memory cards could have sustained damage.
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Russian Federation says the jet was in Syrian airspace near the border.
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Bainetov said Monday the foreign experts involved had praised the “openness” of the process. One microchip from the flight recorder may be readable, Sputnik said. Russian Federation insists the plane never entered Turkish airspace.
On Saturday, Putin made clear that ties with Ankara will not improve under the current Turkish leadership, although he said Russian Federation wanted to maintain good relations with the Turkish people.
The downing of the Russian SU-24 fighter-bomber by Turkish jets on November 24 was the most serious confrontation between Moscow and a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation member state in the last 50 years. Russian Federation denies the downed aircraft did in fact violate it and vowed to retaliate.
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A meeting between Lavrov and his Turkish counterpart, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, that was held after the downing of the Russian jet has produced little progress in easing the tension, while a summit of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, planned to take place this month before the jet incident, was canceled.
