Posted on 07/02/2016 3:53:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin
However, other supportive components related to communication to and from the memory chips “had to be removed and replaced with new ones, whereas advanced high technology will be used to extract the recordings of these units”, according to a statement by the committee.
The test results were satisfactory after replacing the mentioned components, which enabled the committee to read the CVR’s output.
The committee members will return to Cairo with the fixed boards to continue reading and analysing the flight data recorder (FDR) and CVR at the central department for aircraft accidents at the Ministry of Civil Aviation.
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The committee said earlier that the data file extracted from the aeroplane’s FDR has been sent to Cairo to be analysed in labs belonging to the Ministry of Civil Aviation.
The FDR’s memory was successfully repaired at French air investigation labs on Monday, after it was sent to France due to extensive damage caused to the black boxes. Experts made sure the data was recovered from the device.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailynewsegypt.com ...
Plenty of time and a complex chain of custody to tamper with the files.
I don’t think these muzzies have the knowledge to retrieve the data if damaged nor interpret it. Also, I think the data is finer but they may not want to release it because they already know what happened and do not want the truth to come out.
Windshield failure . . .
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In fact, cracked or shattered cockpit windshield occurrences, during commercial aircraft flights at normal cruise altitudes, ranging 20-38 thousand feet, happen more often than one might think. Every week or two there is a cracked or shattered cockpit windshield incident happening on one of the nearly 90 thousands flights airborne each day (or nearly 33 million flights annually) around the world.
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More info:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140507001219-90103575-cracked-aircraft-windshields-are-not-rare
I had the odd thought that it might have been a small but very fast-moving meteor.
They can’t just clip a contact device on each chip and suck out the data?
Translation - the USB connector broke off
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