Flight recorders return to India
NZPA-Reuter Dublin The “black box” flight recorders from an Air-India
jumbo jet which crashed into the sea off Ireland last month were brought ashore yesterday after being handed to Indian officials. The cockpit voice and flight data recorders, which may help to explain why the plane crashed without warning, were transferred at sea early yesterday before the French recovery ship Leon Thevenin berthed at Cork, southern Ireland. They were taken by an Irish naval vessel to its base at Haulbowline and the Indians left in a high-speed road convoy to Cork Airport to board a plane bound for London and Bombay. The recorders, sealed in water-filled tanks, will be opend and played back in India. It is hoped that they will indicate whether the Boeing 747, on a flight from Montreal to London, broke up after an explosion or structural failure. Experts have warned that the flight recorders might now show anything if there had been a sudden electrical failure at the outset of the disaster, in which all 329 people aboard died.
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Press, 13 July 1985, Page 9
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