On 21 December 2007, an Evektor Sportstar, Recreational/ Light Sport
Aircraft registration 24-4148 was involved in a fatal accident 12 km SE
of Bindoon ALA. Recreational Aviation Australia (RA-Aus) staff commenced
an investigation into the occurrence. Three Global Positioning System
(GPS) units were recovered from the accident site.
On 9 April 2008, RA-Aus requested technical assistance from the
Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) to recover the data from the
GPS units. No analysis of the data by the ATSB was sought by RA-Aus. To
protect the information supplied by RA-Aus and the investigative work
undertaken to assist RA-Aus, the ATSB initiated an investigation under
the Transport Safety Investigation Act 2003.
Data was successfully recovered from all three GPS units in May 2008 by
ATSB Technical Analysis staff and subsequently provided to RA-Aus
investigators.
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It appears that the ATSB were called in to recover data off three GPS
units which were carried on board.
What interests me is that they had three GPS units - why would you
carry this many.