俄国失事飞机的飞行记录器已找到并开始进行初步检查

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.

俄罗斯交通官员说，已经找到的俄罗斯失事飞机上的飞行记录器只受到“微小”损害，并已开始对其进行初始检查。这架承载224人的飞机是星期六在埃及坠毁的。

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

俄罗斯航空运输部星期一发布的声明说，将“尽快”就下载和分析记录器上的信息做出进一步决定。

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."

俄航运部的声明公布之前不久，美捷包机公司指出“外部”原因导致飞机失事，并排除了技术故障或人为错误原因。美捷公司没有提出支持其说法的证据，航空部长侯来称包机公司的说法“为时过早，并没有任何事实基础。”

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.

这架美捷航班上的大多数乘客是从埃及西奈半岛返回圣彼得堡的俄罗斯人度假者，飞机在从埃及度假胜地沙姆沙伊赫的机场起飞大约20分钟后，于星期六凌晨从空中坠毁。遇难者中还有三名乌克兰人。机上人员全部遇难。

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

遇难者的遗体星期一早些开始陆续抵达圣彼得堡的普尔科沃机场，俄罗斯政府派飞机将遗体运回国。

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

开罗和莫斯科都淡化了这架飞机是被埃及的伊斯兰国组织分支击落的说法。航空和军事专家们怀疑极端分子是否有能够击中在9100米上空目标的导弹。