AirAsia crash early report: No flight recording analysis
A preliminary report on last month's crash of an AirAsia plane will not include an analysis of the flight recorders, an Indonesian investigator said today.
A preliminary report on last month's crash of an AirAsia plane will not include an analysis of the flight recorders, an Indonesian investigator said today.
The National Transport Safety Committee will issue an initial report tomorrow, but an analysis of the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder has not been completed, said Nurcahyo Utomo, one of the investigators.
"There will be no analysis whatsoever," he said. "We haven't gathered all the facts so it would be wrong to draw a conclusion based on little evidence."
He said the report will be submitted to the International Civil Aviation Organisation and countries with interests in the crash.
Meanwhile, the military said it was ending the search and would withdraw its personnel after its divers failed to find any more bodies from the aircraft's fuselage.
"But we are ready if there's an order to search again,"
Vice Admiral Widodo, a navy commander leading the military's search team, was quoted as saying by the online edition of Republika daily.
Winding down
Search teams have tried unsuccessfully to raise the aircraft fuselage for several days and the commander said they might abandon the effort altogether.
The National Search and Rescue Agency, which coordinates the entire operation, said it was winding down the operation but has not indicated when it would be stopped.
Flight QZ8501 was en route from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore when it crashed into the Java Sea on December 28, killing all 162 people on board.
A total of 70 bodies have been found.
Indonesian Transport Minister Ignasius Jonan said last week that data received by air traffic control showed the aircraft climbing too fast, which caused the engines to stall before it crashed into the sea.
An initial review of cockpit voice recordings found no indications of foul play, investigators said.
- dpa.


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