Cockpit voice recorder found

The Cockpit voice recorder, which will help understand what went wrong after Air India Express flight IX 812 landed at Bajpe airport in Mangalore, has been recovered by authorities among the debris of the crash site. The recorder records conversations in the cockpit between the pilot and Air Traffic Control (ATC)
The crucial Flight data recorder (FDR), popularly known as the Black Box, is still to be found.
The Black Box is not actually painted black, but with heat-resistant bright orange paint. The unit is usually mounted in the aircraft’s tail section.
In the country's worst air disaster in a decade, 158 people died when the Mangalore-bound Boeing 737-800 flight IX-812 from Dubai overshot the runway and burst into flames at the Bajpe airport. 8 persons survived.
A team of top US transportation experts along with officials from Boeing is set to join Indian aviation authorities in probing the Air India Express flight crash.
23/05/10 Times of India

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