Cockpit voice recorder of crashed Pakistani plane recovered

Cockpit voice recorder of crashed Pakistani plane recovered

The recorder, recovered from among the plane debris, was subsequently handed over to Airbus experts.. �The cockpit voice recorder of the Pakistani airliner that crashed last week was found on Thursday, six days after the passenger plane went down in a crowded neighborhood near the airport in the city of Karachi, killing 97 people on board.. Pakistani aviation authorities said this week they are sharing their initial findings with the visiting 11-member team from the European plane maker.. The other part of the black box, a flight data recorder, was recovered within hours of the crash.. But the cockpit voice recorder had been missing since the plane crashed into a congested residential area near Jinnah International Airport last Friday.. There were only two survivors of the Airbus A320 crash, which was carrying 91 passengers and eight crew members.. Abdullah Hafeez Khan, a spokesman for Pakistan International Airlines, said the recovery of the cockpit voice recorder was a significant development as it would play an important role in the investigation of the crash.. Pakistan's Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan told reporters on Thursday that a preliminary report on the crash, along with reports on other crashes in recent years, would be