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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Tuesday, June 11, 2002

One of Black Boxes of Crashed CAL Flight Found

The "Taiwan Aviation Safety Council" confirmed that the underwater photograph-taking Monday had already found one of the black boxes but couldn't tell whether it was the voice recorder or the flight data recorder and moreover, the recorder had already been damaged.


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Seventeen days have gone by after CI611 of China Airlines crashed into the Taiwan Straits, but so far the two cockpit recorders of the accident airplane still remained underwater.

However, the "Taiwan Aviation Safety Council" confirmed that the underwater photograph-taking Monday had already found one of the black boxes but couldn't tell whether it was the voice recorder or the flight data recorder and moreover, the recorder had already been damaged.

The council said the "recorder" for Boeing 747-200 is a traditional tape-recorder. So long as it can be smoothly got out of the water the lab of the council can have it decoded and the US National Transportation Safety Board can also help us to do it.

As learned, to date, the signals of the two recorders are still there but one of them is quite feeble which may die away at any time. That recorder, the Taiwan navy had its photo-taken Monday, has already separated from the body of the aircraft and fallen to the bottom of the sea.

Judging from its shape it seems to have been damaged. Whether it will be difficult for decoding can only be determined when it is sent to the lab in Taibei after picking up from the water.

Though the electric power of the recorder can maintain for some 30 days yet the signal for one of them is quite weak and so the "Taiwan Aviation Safety Council" is worrying that once the signal disappears it will incur greater difficulty for getting it out of the water.



Taiwan Air Crash
  • Accident:A China Airlines passenger jetliner with 206 passengers and 19 crew en route from Taipei to Hong Kong crashed into the Taiwan Straits off the island county of Penghu Saturday afternoon.

  • Rescue work: Taiwanese transportation authorities said that search vessels had found more than 100 bodies in the sea around 25 nautical miles north of Penghu where aChina Airlines jetliner crashed Saturday.

  • Condolences & external assistance: Soon after the crash, the mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) sent a letter of condolences Saturday to the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) in Taiwan. China's Communications Ministry Sunday afternoon sent two powerful tugboats to help the rescue work in the vicinity of the crash site.





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