S7 flight data recorder damaged in fatal crash

摘要

Russian investigators have revealed that the flight data recorder (FDR) from the S7 Airlines Airbus A310-300 that crashed at Irkutsk on 9 July is damaged and will require special care in downloading, although the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) appears to be intact. The aircraft was inbound to Irkutsk from Moscow Domodedovo when, following a localiser-only instrument landing system approach to runway 30 in rain with a cloudbase of about 600ft (180m), the aircraft landed in the runway touchdown zone, according to airport officials. It kept to the runway axis for some distance before slewing to the right and leaving the concrete surface.