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Article: AIR crash investigators will draw on experience gained during the Air India Jumbo crash off Ireland when recovering "black boxes" from the depths of the Atlantic.
- Article from:
- Evening Herald (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
- Article date:
- June 2, 2009
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undersea OPERATION TO recover black boxes WILL MIRROR search for TRAGIC air india FLIGHT AT BOTTOM OF ATLANTIC
AIR crash investigators will draw on experience gained during the Air India Jumbo crash off Ireland when recovering "black boxes" from the depths of the Atlantic.
Both the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) and Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) of the doomed Air India plane were found in water 7,000ft deep.
A total of 329 people died when the Jumbo was blown up by a bomb in Irish airspace on June 23, 1985.
A massive recovery operation, initially spearheaded by the Naval Service, recovered bodies and debris from the plane which exploded at ...