Black box from crashed plane sent to Poland
One of the three flight recorders from the crashed Tu-154 that killed Poland's President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others last weekend is being analyzed in Poland, a source close to the commission probing the crash told Interfax-AVN.
Russian investigators are examining the other two flight recorders at a Defense Ministry research facility.
"Both flight recorders are currently in Lyubertsy in the Defense Ministry's Research Institute No. 13. Russian experts and their Polish colleagues are studying them," the source said.
Two of the flight recorders were installed on the plane by the aircraft's manufacturers and the third was installed by Polish authorities.
A Soviet-made TU-154 carrying a top-level Polish delegation to a ceremony for the anniversary of the Katyn massacre crashed in a wooded area as it attempted to land at an airport in the west of Russia in thick fog on Saturday morning, killing all 96 people on board, including President Lech Kaczynski and his wife.
The mourning ceremony for the accident victims will be held in the centre of Warsaw at noon on Saturday, April 17. President Lech Kaczynski and his wife, Maria, will be buried on Sunday, April 18 in Krakow.