Data from flight data recorder to be handed over to Board of Enquiry, says Coastguard commander

Chennai:

The Flight Data Recorder (FDR) as well as the cockpit voice recorder
(CVR) of Indian Coastguard’s Dornier aircraft, which was found 950
metres under the sea, would be decoded by Hindustan Aeronautics
Limited.



Addressing a Press conference on Friday night, Inspector General SP
Sharma, Commander, Indian Coast Guard (East), said that data on the
FDR as well as CVR would be submitted to a Board of Enquiry instituted
by the Indian Coast Guard to probe the incident.



The board is headed by Deputy Inspector General of Coastguard, who is
also a seasoned senior pilot, and it also has a member from Hindustan
Aeronautics Limited, the manufacturer of the aircraft.



He said that Indian coastguard is not in a hurry to decode the FDR.
“Our concern is now to look for the missing crew members. We have
asked Olympic Canyon to focus on locating the crew members. The search
would be conducted in and around 500 metre by 500 radius from where
the debris of teh aircraft was found,” Sharma said.



He said the Indian Coast Guard has confirmed the FDR serial number. He
said the FDR as well as the cockpit voice recorder and the
undercarriage of the aircraft wheel was located 1600 yards away from
the signal detected by the indian Navy submarine INS Sindhudhwajj on
July 6.



He said the battery of the solar locating beacon continued to emit
signals that too after 30 days which helped in the ROV detecting the
FDR.



He also said that both FDR as well as the undercarriage of aircraft
was located within a radius of 30 metre by 30 metre. “It was sighted
by the ROV at morning and was picked delicately by ROV using the claws
around 4pm,” Sharma said.



“Both FDR, which weighed around 5kg, and Cockpit voice recorder would
help us find out what went wrong as well as why caused the crash of
the aircraft,” Sharma said.