RIA Novosti reports this with reference to a representative of emergency services.
“Both black boxes, the flight voice recorder and the flight recording device, were dismantled by divers in the tail of the helicopter at the bottom of Lake Onega and raised to the surface,” the source said.
It is clarified that now the black boxes, which are previously in satisfactory condition, will be inspected, and then they will be sent for decryption to a specialized research institute.
Earlier it was reported that the bodies of all three crew members of the Mi-8 helicopter that crashed in Karelia were found.
On February 4, it became known that the Mi-8 helicopter of the Ministry of Emergency Situations stopped communicating in Karelia. Later, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations announced that the wreckage of the missing Mi-8 was found in Lake Onega near the village of Derevyannoye.