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Pakistani Investigators Find Flight Data Recorder of Crashed Airblue Plane
Investigators in Pakistan have found the so-called black box, or flight data recorder, at the site of a July 28 plane crash that killed 152 people.
“The black box has been located and it is in our custody,” Mubarak Shah, chief spokesman for the country’s civil aviation authority, said by phone from Islamabad. “The box contains vital information, like correspondence between the pilot and the control tower, that will help us evaluate what went wrong that day.”
Airblue flight Ed202, an Airbus SAS A-321 carrying 146 passengers and six crew, crashed into a hilly area of the capital Islamabad, killing all aboard. Airblue is one of the two private commercial airlines operating in Pakistan.
Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani ordered an inquiry into the accident.
Airblue Chief Executive Officer Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said yesterday that 102 bodies recovered from the site had been handed over to the victim’s families.
Shah said no timeframe for the completion of the investigation has been issued.
“It is impossible to tell right now when we will complete our investigations,” he said.
To contact the reporter on this story: Khurrum Anis in Karachi at kkhan14@bloomberg.net
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