India will send black box to US

New Delhi: The black box and the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR), which hold the key to investigations into the tragic May 22 Mangalore Air India crash, would be sent to USA, where it would be decoded.
Top sources in the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) — the civil aviation safety regulator — said they had decided to use the services of the best available lab in the world.
“We don’t want to take any chances. We have decided to send the black box and CVR to the best lab in USA. Certain formalities need to be completed before this can be done and we are in the process of completing them,” a DGCA official said.
Sources said the laboratory of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), an autonomous agency of the US government, could be used for this purpose. A three-member team of the NTSB is already in Delhi coordinating closely with the DGCA team probing the case.
28/05/10 Tushar Srivastava/Hindustan Times

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