Flight recorder data from crashed Yemenia flight found.Byline: Daily Star StaffSummary: <p>An International team on Friday retrieved a slightly damaged flight data recorder The flight data recorder (FDR) is a flight recorder used to record specific aircraft performance parameters. A separate device is the cockpit voice recorder (CVR), although some versions (including the original) combine both in one unit. from a Yemenia Airways flight that crashed in the Indian Ocean Indian Ocean, third largest ocean, c.28,350,000 sq mi (73,427,000 sq km), extending from S Asia to Antarctica and from E Africa to SE Australia; it is c.4,000 mi (6,400 km) wide at the equator. It constitutes about 20% of the world's total ocean area. on June 30, killing 152 people, Comoros-based officials said.AaThe black box was picked up underwater off the coast of the island nation's capital, Moroni, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a statement released by the Comoros-based investigation team. MORONI, Comoros
Interior Minister Bourhane Hamidou said the box was slightly damaged.Aa No details were provided about a second box containing a voice recorder.Aa The Yemenia Flight 626 crashed while it was flying from Paris to Moroni via Yemen. Many of the victims were French citizens of Comoran origin. 13-year-old Bahia Bakari was the sole survivor, rescued after eight hours in shark-filled waters holding on to wreckage. "I looked out the porthole and the plane started to shake," Bahia told NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. .Aa "They didn't tell us there was going to be a crash. I felt the water around me. I found myself in the ocean. I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. how it happened, I didn't see my mother." A French naval ship detected signal beacons of the flight data and cockpit recorders -- key to determining the cause of the crash -- in July at depths of Aa1,200 meters about 15 kilometers northwest of Grand Comoros island.Aa The vessel lacked deep sea diving equipment to retrieve them but a second French ship carrying a special underwater robot arrived at the site August 20 to continue the search for the black boxes and other debris from the plane.Aa Investigators from France, Yemen and Comoros are participating in the operation.Aa The causes of the crash of the plane, which was carrying mainly passengers of Comoros origin living in France, remain unknown. -- AP, AFP (1) (AppleTalk Filing Protocol) The file sharing protocol used in an AppleTalk network. In order for non-Apple networks to access data in an AppleShare server, their protocols must translate into the AFP language. See file sharing protocol. Copyright 2009, The Daily Star. All rights reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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