The flight data recorder (FDR), commonly known as blackbox, of the Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter aircraft which crashed in Pune earlier this week, has been retrieved.
"The FDR of the aircraft has been retrieved and the data is being analysed," an Indian Air Force (IAF) spokesman from the Lohegaon base said on Friday.
The Lohegaon air base, which is home to the squadrons of the Russian made aircraft will continue with "emergent and limited flying" on Sukhoi-30 till the FDR information is fully analysed, the spokesman added.
The Sukhoi-30 fighter aircraft, which had taken off from IAF's Lohegaon base, crashed on December 13 near a village in an open stretch of land while on a routine mission.
Both the pilots flying the aircraft had ejected safely after the plane developed a technical snag, within half an hour of its take off.
Meanwhile, Air Marshal A K Gogai, AOC-in-C of South West Air Command (SWAC) visited the Lohegaon airbase last night and submitted information on the sequence of events leading to the crash, the third one involving Sukhoi-30.
He also visited the injured pilots of the ill-fated sortie at a city hospital.
