No trace of key device from Reddy’s chopper

Hydreabad: Authorities are yet to trace a key emergency alarm instrument of the helicopter which crashed killing former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy even as a team of Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) probing the incident today began decoding the cockpit voice recorder of the chopper.
The four-member DGCA team has taken the cockpit voice recorder to Delhi where it began examining it to decode the data and retrieve other information which would be crucial in the investigation into the crash, Kurnool District Collector Mukul Kumar Meena told Press Trust of India over phone.
The DGCA team of Captain Irshad Ahmed and others, which went to Kurnool on September 3 as part of the investigations to find out the cause of the crash, was handed over the cockpit voice recorder of the Bell-430 helicopter and other documents yesterday, Meena said.
However, the copter’s emergency location transmitter (ELT), which sends signals in the event of crash landing, is yet to be found, he said.
Another official said the ELT did not emit signals as it might have been damaged in the crash.
05/09/09 Herald

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Categories: Indian Aviation- In General Sep 2009, Safety Sep 2009