ALMATY, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Kazakhstan has received the decoded data from the two black boxes of the crashed Azerbaijan Airlines aircraft and is conducting further analysis of it, the Kazakh Transport Ministry said Wednesday.

The flight recorders (black boxes) were delivered to Kazakhstan from Brazil and are now being studied by specialists, the ministry said in a statement.

"The commission, in line with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Annex 13 standards, will publish a preliminary report after a detailed study of all facts and materials, providing established factual information and the progress of the investigation," the ministry said.

Earlier, specialists from Brazil's Aeronautical Accidents Investigation and Prevention Center began extracting data from the black boxes of the Brazilian-made Embraer 190 plane, Kazakhstan's Kazinform News Agency reported.

Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243 from Baku to Grozny crashed near the Kazakh city of Aktau on Dec. 25 with 62 passengers and five crew members on board. Thirty-eight people were killed in the crash, and 29 were rescued, according to Kazakhstan's Ministry of Emergency Situations. Enditem

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