Hong Kong investigators recover black boxes from crashed cargo plane
Air Accident Investigation Authority pledges a preliminary report within a month after recovering flight recorders from salvaged wreckage
Hong Kong authorities have retrieved two black boxes from a crashed cargo plane that killed two airport security workers in a vehicle earlier this week and ended up in the sea, pledging to release a preliminary report within a month.
The Airport Authority also said on Saturday that a retrieval team had lifted wreckage of the patrol vehicle from waters off the north runway in the morning. The vehicle was being kept on a salvage vessel while police were investigating.
The Air Accident Investigation Authority (AAIA), which is responsible for investigating the crash, said on Saturday that it had managed to recover two flight data recorders, commonly known as black boxes, from the wreckage on Friday night after the Airport Authority had lifted the aircraft’s tail from the water.
The devices had been waterlogged, the AAIA added.
The Airport Authority deployed a professional team and two salvage vessels on Thursday to remove the cargo plane, which crashed on Monday.
The AAIA has sent the recovered devices to a laboratory for preliminary examination to determine the next course of action.