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New Delhi – Investigators in India found the second “black box” – The cockpit voice recorder – on the accident site Air India 171 flightThe Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner who struck buildings in the west city of Ahmedabad on Thursday, killing Everything except one Of the 242 people on board and dozens of others on the ground.
“The flight data recorder (FDR) and the Vocal Cockpit (CVR) vocal recorder were located and obtained,” the office of Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday in a statement.
Hope is that the vocal recorder will help investigators Which caused a plane crushing A few minutes after taking off from Ahmedabad airport. The cockpit vocal recorder captures the audio of the cockpit, including conversations between pilots, alarms and ambient sounds.
A call from Mayday was sent by the flight captain, Sameet Sabharwal, a few seconds after the plane to London left the track to Ahmedabad.
Friday, the rescuers and investigators recovered the other black box, the flight data recorder. That the recorder records data trains of the different systems on modern passenger jets, everything, from the altitude and speed to the performance of the engine. Black boxes are designed to survive accidents and are considered vital for air accident investigators to determine the cause of disasters.
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The Bureau of the India Aircraft Accident Survey (AAIB) is investigating the Thursday Flight Crash in 171. They are assisted by teams from the United States and the United Kingdom, a National Transportation Safety Board team interviewed the accident site in Ahmedabad on Sunday. The Hindustan Times newspaper reported that representatives of the American Federal Adviation also interviewed the accident site.
“The AAIB launched a detailed investigation, and the National Safety Board (NTSB) transportation in the United States has been carrying out a parallel investigation in international protocols since the American manufacturing plane,” Prime Minister Modi’s office said on Sunday.
The Indian government has also established a high -level committee specifically to investigate the crash and recommend all the changes deemed necessary for standard operational procedures in the future. This committee held its first meeting on Monday.
At least 33 people were killed on the ground while the Air India plane crashed into a building that housed students from a medical college next door.
While surveys on one of the worst accidents in India’s history of aviation continued, the families of hundreds of victims were still waiting to have their relatives.
The plane is mounted in a massive flame ball and a large part of the fuselage has been reduced to rubble, which makes it difficult for the authorities to recover and identify the bodies. The officials have been working to match DNA samples of the remains of the victims of the accident and family members since the end of last week.
CBS News has seen several families of victims at Ahmedabad civilian hospital wait for the bodies of their loved ones. The remains of at least 24 people had been given to their families on Monday, the authorities announced.
“It’s a long process and it will take his time,” said Ahmedabad police commissioner GS Malik on Monday. He said the final number of death would only be confirmed after the end of DNA tests.
“More than 400 family members have reached Ahmedabad and are assisted by our teams on the ground,” Air India said in a statement.
The Directorate General for Civil Aviation of India has declared an Air India to carry out additional security checks on its entire fleet of Boeing Dreamliner last week.
