Ill-fated Airbus' black boxes found<\/p>\n
MEDAN, North Sumatra (JP): Searchers found yesterday the two
\nblack box recorders of a Garuda Indonesia Airbus which crashed
\ninto a ravine near here more than three weeks ago killing all 234
\npeople on board, an official said.<\/p>\n
Chief of the Medan military air base Lt. Col. Benyamin S.
\nDandel said the recorders were found buried some 20 centimeters
\ndeep and 25 meters away from the crash site in Buah Nabar
\nvillage, Sibolangit subdistrict, Deli Serdang regency.<\/p>\n
During the last three weeks, workers have been combing an
\nincreasingly wider area in their search for the black boxes and
\nother evidence of the cause of the crash.<\/p>\n
Benyamin said the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) and the Flight
\nData Recorder (FDR) were found by local farmers assisting the
\ngovernment investigators led by Oetarjo Diran.<\/p>\n
The FDR contains data about flight's direction, speed, and
\naltitude, while the CVR contains recordings of the conversations
\nbetween the pilot, co-pilot and air traffic controllers.<\/p>\n
"Alhamdullilah (praise Allah) they have been found," said
\nOetarjo who has led the army of searchers from the Armed Forces,
\nforeign and domestic experts, as well as local volunteers.<\/p>\n
He said he would take the recorders directly to Canberra,
\nAustralia, for analysis, today at the latest.<\/p>\n
He said the recorders had to be analyzed as soon as possible
\nas there were fears the contents could be damaged if there was
\ntoo long a time lapse between the crash and the finding of the
\nboxes.<\/p>\n
Only a handful of countries -- including Canada, the United
\nStates and England, have the technology to interpret black box
\nrecorder data.<\/p>\n
"We trust Canberra because it has the technology to fix and
\nread data from possibly damaged black box recorders," Oetarjo
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
In Jakarta, Minister of Transportation Haryanto Dhanutirto
\nsaid analysis could take "months" given the many parameters
\ninvolved. He did not elaborate.<\/p>\n
Oetarjo said it was hoped the investigators would eventually
\nbe able to conclude the "what, how, and why the accident
\nhappened". (21\/aan)<\/p>",
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