Originally Posted by
rh2600
Apparently, we're not the only ones trying to figure out if its the FDR or CVR - just heard on Radio NZ that "the authorities now say they are not sure if its the the CVR or FDR"
On another note, I was surprised to see the FDR/CVR being handled by Chief of the National SAR Agency. I thought these things needed to sit in water (if recovered from undersea) and be carefully delivered to experts who painstakingly ensure a careful process is followed, not being waved around and brandished with bare hands in the dry in a manner that could see it in any way compromised/dropped/shaken etc. Just classic grandstanding or am I missing something?
I think the procedure for retrieving data from a recorder that's had a swim in the sea is pretty well practised by now, as we saw with the recent Air Niugini B738, whose recorder was flown 1200 miles to Port Moresby before the memory modules were carefully removed and decontaminated.