The damaged cockpit voice recorder from doomed EgyptAir Flight 804 has been recovered and could provide enough information to determine if ...
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The damaged cockpit voice recorder from doomed EgyptAir Flight 804 has been recovered and could provide enough information to determine if the crash that killed 66 people last month was an act of terrorism, a former U.S. crash investigator says.
Egypt's investigation committee said in a statement Thursday that a specially equipped ship was able to "salvage the part (of the recorder) that contains the memory unit, which is considered the most important part of the recording device."
The Cairo-bound Airbus 320 crashed in the Mediterranean Sea on May 19, more than three hours after leaving Paris.
Al Diehl, a former investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board, said the voice recorder can provide clues on what happened to the plane and what the crew did to prevent the disaster.
“It should allow them to answer most of the basic questions about whether this was a fire, explosion, mechanical issue or an act of terrorism,” Diehl said. “The voice recorder will basically take you inside the mind of pilots.”
The voices could narrate what the problem was and reveal the stress level the pilots faced. The recorder also captures noises such as circuit breakers popping, which could indicate a fire, or hail hitting the windshield in a weather emergency.
The voice recorder and a separate data recorder are the "black boxes" — actually orange — carried in commercial aircraft. There was no immediate word on the fate of the data recorder.
The data recorder is still important to find because it describes how the plane was functioning. Besides mechanical functions such as how the engines were running, it will include details such as whether there was a rapid decompression.
"In general terms, the data recorder tells you what happened, but the voice recorder tells you why it happened," Diehl said.
Searchers spotted the plane's wreckage Wednesday, just days before the 30-day lifespan expires on the batteries for the emergency signals emitted from the boxes. The voice recorder was being taken by ship to the Egyptian city of Alexandria.
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Al Diehl, a former investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board, said the voice recorder can provide clues on what happened to the plane and what the crew did to prevent the disaster.
“It should allow them to answer most of the basic questions about whether this was a fire, explosion, mechanical issue or an act of terrorism,” Diehl said. “The voice recorder will basically take you inside the mind of pilots.”
The voices could narrate what the problem was and reveal the stress level the pilots faced. The recorder also captures noises such as circuit breakers popping, which could indicate a fire, or hail hitting the windshield in a weather emergency.
The voice recorder and a separate data recorder are the "black boxes" — actually orange — carried in commercial aircraft. There was no immediate word on the fate of the data recorder.
The data recorder is still important to find because it describes how the plane was functioning. Besides mechanical functions such as how the engines were running, it will include details such as whether there was a rapid decompression.
"In general terms, the data recorder tells you what happened, but the voice recorder tells you why it happened," Diehl said.
Searchers spotted the plane's wreckage Wednesday, just days before the 30-day lifespan expires on the batteries for the emergency signals emitted from the boxes. The voice recorder was being taken by ship to the Egyptian city of Alexandria.
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