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Crashed helicopter Flight
Data Recorder and Cockpit Voice Recorder
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The Flight Data Recorder and Cockpit Voice Recorder,
CVR, were Friday recovered by the Accident Investigation Bureau, AIB, after two
days of frantic search for the two items that will aid and quicken
investigation of the crashed helicopter. This was made known, Friday, by Head,
Public Affairs, AIB, Mr Tunji Oketunbi. He said that “the Accident
Investigation Bureau announced today(Friday)
that the flight recorders, popularly known as black boxes, to the Sikosky
76 helicopter that crashed into the lagoon in Oworonshoki area of Lagos on
Wednesday 12 August, 2015 have been recovered.”
Vanguard report
continues:
Oketunbi added that “The
Sikosky 76 helicopter marked 5N-BGD and operated by Bristow Helicopters was
believed to have departed SEDCO oil platform offshore and crashed shortly
before landing at Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja, Lagos.”
“The search party led by
Julius Berger with the assistance of a hired diver located the recorders, which
are expected to assist the investigators in unraveling the cause of the
accident in which four passengers and two crew members were fatally injured.
Six other passengers are receiving treatment at a private hospital.”
“The Flight Data Recorder
(FDR) contains data generated from different parts of the aircraft including
the engines and the avionics while the Cockpit Voice Recorder will unveil
conversations within the cockpit and between the pilots and the Control Tower.”
“The biggest part of the
wreckage of the ill-fated aircraft was recovered yesterday but without the
black boxes. The search was resumed today (Friday)."
According to AIB,
investigation has extended to retrieving documents and other materials from
Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) Nigerian Airspace Management Agency
(NAMA) and the airline operator. “Other information will be released to the
public as they unfold and according to International Civil Aviation Organization
(ICAO) Annexe 13.”
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