Berlin/DPA, Dec. 27 -- The black box recovered from the plane crash in Turkey that killed a Libyan general and his companions is being sent to Germany for evaluation, the Libyan Interior Ministry said on Thursday evening.

This is intended to ensure a "precise technical analysis," the ministry said.

A black box contains the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder. It is typically analysed in a crash investigation.

In Germany, flight recorders are mostly analysed by the Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation (BFU) in Braunschweig.

The Turkish public prosecutor's office has also pledged to support the investigation into the crash and to provide all documents and camera recordings, according to the Libyan Interior M...