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| Australian Authorities tight-lipped on on Garuda Air black box recordings |
| 2007-03-11 |
| The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) is remaining tight-lipped about the information recovered from the flight data recorder (FDR) of the the Garuda Airlines plane that crashed in Yogyakarta on Wednesday. Investigators say that information has been forwarded to Indonesian authorities for analysis and release. The ATSB has been working to decode both black boxes from the plane, since they arrived in Canberra on Friday, but could not retrieve data from the second box, the cockpit voice recorder (CVR). Bureau executive director Kym Bills says he can not comment on what was found on the recorder. He says that is up to the Indonesians to disclose. "It's more of a matter of checking it against the physical evidence and the other evidence that they've gathered on the accident site and in relation to the whole investigation," Mr Bills said. "But they really need to be confident with the data, we've done the work, it's now over to them." Mr Bills says the cockpit's voice recorder will be sent to the United States for further analysis. "The box was actually damaged less than the flight data recorder so, we thought initially if we were going to have problems, it was more likely to be with the FDR, but we were able to do a number of things there including replace burned connectors and so forth and get some good data," he said. "But for whatever reason, the CVR - despite being damaged - has not been able to yield data to us." |
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