Flight data from Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash sent to Kazakhstan officials

FILE PHOTO: A drone view shows the crash site of a passenger plane near Aktau

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The extraction of flight data from the Brazilian-made Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan last month was completed at a lab run by Brazil's air force, according to a statement released by the entity on Monday.

The data from the Embraer plane was sent to the Kazakhstan authority investigating the crash.

(Reporting by Andre Romani; Writing by Isabel Teles)