The
flight data recorder monitors parameters such as altitude, airspeed and the heading of a plane.
Luna said the
flight data recorder will be sent to the U.S.
Voice and
flight data recorders, which hold the clues to a plane's crash, are built strong enough to survive bomb blasts, violent impacts, and intense fire.
The digital
flight data recorder was recovered Thursday, said Yakua Lopangkao, director-general of Laos' Department of Civil Aviation.
The investigation continues with work under way to salvage the wreckage and combined cockpit voice and
flight data recorder." Last night Grampian Police confirmed the identities of four of the eight men whose bodies were recovered.
The
flight data recorder was first located last week and will now go to the Air Accidents Investigation Branch's (AAIB's) Hampshire headquarters.
Denise Abreu, director of Brazil's Civil Aviation Agency, said that after analysing the
flight data recorder of the executive jet, "what we can affirm is that there was a collision".
The discovery along with the recovery of the
flight data recorder on Saturday,may provide vital clues as to what happened to the Flash Airlines Boeing 737.
Searchers hunting for the wreckage of a charter jet that crashed into the Red Sea last night detected a signal that could be the plane's black box
flight data recorder, a French official has said.
Kay Yong, managing director of Taiwan's Aviation Safety Council, said the black box containing the
flight data recorder was retrieved Wednesday morning from the seabed north of the Penghu Islands by divers from a Singaporean salvaging company after a Taiwan Navy minesweeper pinpointed its exact location Tuesday.
The plane's
flight data recorder, which could provide vital clues to the tragedy, has a memory flaw.
Investigators today were examining the
flight data recorder black box recovered from the crash site.