Karachi: The
cockpit voice recorder of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane which
crashed in Karachi on May 22 killing 97 people, has been found in the wreckage,
the media reported on Friday. "The search resumed this morning and the voice
recorder was found buried in the debris," The Express Tribune quoted PIA
spokesman Abdullah H Khan as saying in a statement on Thursday. "The cockpit
voice recorder recovery will help a lot in the investigation." The flight data
recorder had already been found. Officials and Airbus investigators are
collecting evidence at the site as they try to determine the cause of the
country's worst airline disaster in years.
French investigators from the BEA "the French air safety investigation authority for civil aviation "have joined the Pakistan-led probe because the 15-year-old Airbus 320 jet was designed in France. The BEA said in a statement that the two recorders would be examined at its laboratory just outside Paris.(IANS)
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