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Indonesian authorities said on Thursday that they had found the flight data recorder of a Russian plane the crashed on May 9, killing all 45 people on board. Officials said a recovery team found the device buried nearly 100 feet underground. (SOUNDBITE)(Bahasa Indonesia) HEAD OF THE NATIONAL SEARCH AND RESCUE AGENCY, DARYATMO, SAYING: "The devices that we have been looking for, the flight data recorder, was found last night by our recovery and search team." The cockpit voice recorder had previously been pulled from the wreckage on May 16. The flight data recorder has been handed over to the National Committee of Safety Transportation, which is currently investigating the cause of the crash. The Sukhoi Superjet 100, flown by a veteran Russian pilot, crashed into the side of a volcano in West Java Province while on a demonstration flight. Travis Brecher, Reuters