It is hoped that the
flight data recorder will shed light on what caused the helicopter to come down.
The
flight data recorder (FDR) is built to withstand crashes and is usually located at the rear of aircraft.
Kay Yong, managing director of Taiwan's Aviation Safety Council, said salvage workers were able to determine the location of the
flight data recorder during dives in the afternoon after picking up weak acoustic signals emitted from it early Tuesday.
L-3 Aviation Recorders (L-3AR) is the world's leading manufacturer of solid state cockpit voice and
flight data recorders for commercial, civil, and military applications.
Searchers found Thursday the
flight data recorder of an Air Philippines jetliner that crashed Wednesday in the southern Philippines, killing all 131 people on board.
Jet planes are equipped with two black boxes: the cockpit voice recorder and the
flight data recorder. The cockpit voice recorder continuously collects data and retains a record of the most recent 30 minutes.
The investigators had discovered the fault after analysing the
flight data recorder (FDR) of the plane which plunged into the Java Sea minutes after taking off from Jakarta on October 29 with 189 people on board.
A popular website among Cirrus owners, Cirrus Reports allows aircraft owners to store, process and analyze information retrieved from the aircraft
flight data recorder.
A plane's
flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder - known as the "black boxes" - often hold vital clues to the moments before an incident.
CAIRO, Ramadan 24, 1437, Jun 29, 2016, SPA -- Investigators have successfully downloaded data from crashed EgyptAir flight MS804's
Flight Data Recorder and are validating over 1,200 parameters before the analysis process, Egypt's investigation committee said on Wednesday, Reuters reported.
The committee is analysing the memory units from the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) and the
Flight Data Recorder (FDR) before determining if they can be repaired in Egypt or will need to be sent abroad.
The other is the
flight data recorder, and both have been recovered from the wreckage at the bottom of the Java Sea.