Flight tape found
NZPA Washington The last vita) 10 seconds; of tape from the crashed DCIO flight data recorder was found to be missing just be-, fore the New Zealand investi-i gator, Mr M. Wylie, was due to leave Washington to re-1 turn home. He said the tape had broken when the ploughed into Mount Erebus. "When it was spliced, the; computer playing the tape ! read over the splice and we I missed the last 10 seconds of! records." The gap was discovered when Mr Wylie and Ameri-' can technicians were making the final ground plot using information from the flight re-j Corder and the cockpit voice' recorder tape. “The two tapes did not synchronise and we found
we were missing the last few; J vital seconds from the flight] data tape.” Mr Wylie is now expected , to leave Washington today I for the McDonnell Douglas ■ Long Beach plant before re- ! turning to New Zealand. ! Air New Zealand’s chief i executive (Mr M. R. Davis) said yesterday there was no : decision yet on a replace;ment plane for the crashed ; DCIO. ;! Lloyds, the London underwriter, has paid out the $43 million “hull” insurance on lithe aircraft. While this would almost ; meet the cost of a new DCIO, the airline had no immediate plan to replace the aircraft ■ destroved on Mount Erebus.l he said. Recovering bodies of vic-i I i tints of the DCIO crash has'
taken its toll of the men working on Mount Erebus. “Police who returned from the Antarctic were given immediate leave and stresscounselling services were made readily available to them and to the Federated Mountain Club people involved,” said the director of Police Medical Services (Dr W. Treadwell) in Wellington yesterday.
“The disaster victims identification teams still working in Auckland are, of course, facing similar stresses and duty rosters have been arranged to ease this as far as is possible under the circumstances,” he said.
To date, 204 post-mortem examinations have been carried out and 50 bodies released to relatives.
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