Investigators in Brazil work to extract data from black box of crashed Azerbaijan Airlines plane

Investigators from Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Russia, three from each side, are working to analyze data from the black boxes of the Azerbaijani plane, crashed on December 25, 2024, near Kazakh city Aktau, killing 38 people, Kazinform News Agency correspondent reports.

Specialists from the Aeronautical Accidents Investigation and Prevention Center (Cenipa) of the Brazilian Air Force began analyzing data from the black boxes of Azerbaijan Airlines’s Embraer 190 plane, that crashed near Aktau.

Brazil's air force said in a statement that nine foreign investigators have gathered with its own experts at its centre for investigation and prevention of air accidents in the capital Brasilia to work on the data extracted from the flight recorder, informs Euronews.

Kazakhstan has three investigators in the group, while six others come from Azerbaijan and Russia, it added.

Investigators in Brasilia are working on recordings, cockpit voice and flight data recorders of the aircraft, the Brazilian air force was cited as saying.

The conclusions to be released in the final report are to be handed over to the Kazakh authorities.

As written before, 38 died and 29 survived as Baku-Grozny flight J2-8243 operated by Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) crashed near Aktau, Kazakhstan, on December 25.

Earlier the President of Azerbaijan thanked Kazakhstanis for rescue and search efforts at the plane crash site.

The Kazakh Transport Ministry revealed the details of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash near Aktau.

Earlier it was reported that the bodies of 10 deceased people out of 38 have been so far identified.

The chronology of the tragedy is available here.