Investigators expect, by this coming weekend, to release preliminary data gleaned from the flight recorders recovered from an Antonov An-148 that crashed in western Russia on March 5, killing all six people aboard, Russia’s ITAR-TASS news agency reported today. Witnesses on the ground reported that the Russian-built regional jet began to break apart while in flight, before crashing onto a private lot in western Russia’s Belgorod region. A piece of the airplane’s horizontal stabilizer and other debris settled to the ground as far as two miles from the crash site, according to local reports.
Built by Russia’s Voronezh Aircraft Production Association (VASO) and destined for the Myanmar Air Force for VIP use, the high-wing regional jet carried four Russian crew and two pilots from Myanmar, reportedly on a training mission. Myanmar’s defense department placed an order for two An-148s in 2009.
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