The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) is assisting the
Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee (NTSC) with the
investigation into the circumstances surrounding the tragic
accident involving a Boeing 737-400 on 7 March 2007 at Yogyakarta,
Indonesia.
As part of this assistance, the ATSB will download and analyse
data from both the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) and flight data
recorder (FDR) recovered from the aircraft. Depending on the extent
of damage, this may involve significant time in transferring data
to new black box chassis before download and then analysis. If
there is useable data, preliminary results are expected early next
week.
The recorders are arriving in Canberra today at approximately
12.00 (midday) at the Corporate Air Facilities at Canberra Airport.
The recorders will then be transferred to the ATSB headquarters at
15 Mort Street, Canberra.
There will be an opportunity for the media to film the arrival
of the recorders at both locations, Corporate Air Facilities,
Canberra Airport and subsequently at ATSB headquarters, 15 Mort
Street, Canberra.