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Images of the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) from the Air India crash site showed the device charred and surrounded by burnt aircraft debris.
Cockpit Voice Recorder of the crashed Air India plane in Ahmedabad (Photo: News18)
Images of the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR), hours after it was recovered from the Air India crash site in Ahmedabad, have surfaced.
The images showed a charred CVR amidst the heap of other burnt materials and the debris of the aircraft.
CVR records radio transmissions and other sounds in the cockpit, such as conversations between the pilots and engine noises, and is a crucial discovery to help ascertain the possible cause of the Air India plane crash, which killed 270 persons, including 241 on board.
Earlier, the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) had confirmed that only the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) of the ill-fated plane was found.
The officials confirmed the recovery of black boxes to PK Mishra, the Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who on Sunday inspected the site where the Air India plane crashed in Ahmedabad on June 12 and also visited the civil hospital where the injured persons are undergoing treatment.
With the finding of both black boxes of the plane, it would be easy for investigators to ascertain the cause of the crash.
All but one of the 242 passengers and crew on board the Boeing 787-8 (AI 171) and another 29 persons, including five MBBS students, on the ground were killed when the London-bound aircraft crashed into the nearby campus of a medical college in Meghaninagar area and burst into flames, moments after it took off from the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport.
Mishra reviewed the accident site near the BJ Medical College in Meghaninagar, where senior officials from the state government, AAIB and Airports Authority of India briefed him on the sequence of events and immediate response measures, the release said.
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Vani Mehrotra is the Deputy News Editor at News18.com. She has nearly 10 years of experience in both national and international news and has previously worked on multiple desks.
Vani Mehrotra is the Deputy News Editor at News18.com. She has nearly 10 years of experience in both national and international news and has previously worked on multiple desks.
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