PIA Plane crash: Flight's Blackbox successfully decoded by French experts

Dunya News

Important information has been retrieved from Flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder

ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - The blackbox of flight PK8303 has reportedly been successfully decoded. Sources say the data decoded from the black box has been handed over to Air Commodore Usman Ghani, the head of the Pakistani investigation team.

Sources said that Air Commodore Usman Ghani will arrive in Islamabad from Frankfurt on June 7 on a PIA flight carrying the collected data and evidence.

Earlier, Airbus had released preliminary information about the PIA plane crash in its ongoing investigation. The Airbus management informed the Pakistani government agencies about the preliminary information. Airbus officials say they have obtained important information from the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder of the crashed PIA plane.

Airbus Chief Product Safety Officer wrote a letter to PIA and other Airbus plane users, stating that an investigation into the PIA plane crash is under way and the analysis of flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder has revealed important information which will further help the investigation.

The Airbus letter stated that the Airbus administration is analyzing evidence based on what has been recovered at Le Bourget Lab.

The letter said representatives of the Pakistan Aircraft Accident Investigation Board were also involved in the investigation, cooperating fully with the investigation team, but Airbus did not have any specific safety recommendations for operators at this stage of the investigation.