俄國失事飛機的飛行記錄器已找到並開始進行初步檢查

Russian transportation officials say flight recorders recovered from the Russian jetliner that crashed Saturday in Egypt with 224 people on board have sustained only "minor" damage and have undergone a preliminary inspection.

俄羅斯交通官員說，已經找到的俄羅斯失事飛機上的飛行記錄器只受到“微小”損害，並已開始對其進行初始檢查。這架承載224人的飛機是星期六在埃及墜毀的。

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In a statement Monday, the Air Transportation Ministry said further decisions on downloading and analyzing information from the recorders would be resolved "shortly."

俄羅斯航空運輸部星期一發布的聲明說，將“儘快”就下載和分析記錄器上的信息做出進一步決定。

The ministry statement came shortly after the charter airline company Metrojet cited "external" reasons for the crash, after ruling out technical failure or human error. Metrojet did not offer evidence to back its assertions, and the air ministry later called the carrier's comments "premature and not based on any real facts."

俄航運部的聲明公佈之前不久，美捷包機公司指出“外部”原因導致飛機失事，並排除了技術故障或人爲錯誤原因。美捷公司沒有提出支持其說法的證據，航空部長侯來稱包機公司的說法“爲時過早，並沒有任何事實基礎。”

The Metrojet flight carrying mostly Russian vacationers from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula to St. Petersburg fell from the sky before dawn on Saturday, about 20 minutes after departing the airport at the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh. Three Ukrainians were among the fatalities. There were no survivors.

這架美捷航班上的大多數乘客是從埃及西奈半島返回聖彼得堡的俄羅斯人度假者，飛機在從埃及度假勝地沙姆沙伊赫的機場起飛大約20分鐘後，於星期六凌晨從空中墜毀。遇難者中還有三名烏克蘭人。機上人員全部遇難。

Earlier Monday, the first bodies of victims of the Russian airplane crash arrived at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Airport aboard a Russian government plane.

遇難者的遺體星期一早些開始陸續抵達聖彼得堡的普爾科沃機場，俄羅斯政府派飛機將遺體運回國。

Cairo and Moscow have played down the claim from Egypt's Islamic State (IS) branch that it shot down the plane.

開羅和莫斯科都淡化了這架飛機是被埃及的伊斯蘭國組織分支擊落的說法。航空和軍事專家們懷疑極端分子是否有能夠擊中在9100米上空目標的導彈。