Investigators Find Flight Recorders From Crashed Russian Jet in Ukraine

搜寻人员找到在乌坠毁俄客机黑匣子

In eastern Ukraine, searchers recovered both flight recorders Wednesday from the wreckage of a Russian jet that went down Tuesday, killing all 170 people on the plane. The aircraft crashed during a severe thunderstorm and erupted in a ball of flames. No one survived.

If the flight data recorder and the device that records cockpit conversation prove to be intact, they could point to a definite cause for the crash. Russian and Ukrainian officials have said the TU-154 jet may have been hit by lightning, or slammed to the ground by a sudden wind change in the midst of a violent storm.

Russian and Ukrainian investigators who found the flight recorders have been studying burned fragments of the plane, which lie scattered across a marshy rural area.

在乌克兰东部，搜寻人员星期三从一架星期二坠毁的俄罗斯客机残骸中找到了两个飞行数据记录器。这架客机星期二坠毁，机上170人员全部遇难。飞机在大雷雨中坠落，起火燃烧，无一人幸免。

如果飞行数据记录器和驾驶舱录音器完好，就可能确定这次坠机的原因。俄罗斯和乌克兰官员说，这架图-154客机可能被闪电击中，或者在暴雨中受到气流突然变化的影响而坠落。

发现飞行数据记录器的俄罗斯和乌克兰调查人员正在研究烧焦的客机碎片。这些碎片散落在一个沼泽遍布的农村地区。