The much awaited finding of the flight data recorder and the black box cockpit voice has become a reality as a team of navy divers recovered the flight data recorder from the plane's wreckage on Monday after a fortnight-long search which has been hindered by bad weather.
The devices would be analysed
in Jakarta. The flight recorder monitors data such as airspeed and the
aircraft's heading, while the cockpit voice recorder stores radio transmissions
and sounds from within the cockpit.
Sky's
Beijing Correspondent Mark Stone said:
"Experts will be looking at data which recorded the performance of the
engines or other instruments in the cockpit. All of that will be taken to
Jakarta and analysed in great detail.
"The
conversations the crew had with ground control units in Singapore and Indonesia
are already known, but they do not know what conversations took place on the
flight deck.
"They
know there was no Mayday issued and the cockpit recorder, when it is found,
could reveal why."
The
Air Asia Flight QZ8501 went down into the Java Sea 28 December, halfway into
its two hours journey from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore with 162 passengers
on board.
Over
40 bodies have so far been recovered; some of which have been identified and
buried by the families of the victims. Most of the bodies are believed to still
be in the fuselage strapped to their seats.
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