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bona fides considered, Meekal's earlier point about the habits of the authorities there, regarding accident investigations, look to have been close to the mark.
Originally Posted by google news and express tribune summary
Junaid Ameen, the director-general of the Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority ... stated that the box would be examined by "foreign experts" in Germany or France as Pakistan does not possess the equipment to decode the flight recorders. He also stated that the process of extracting information may take six months to a year.
I'd be willing to bet a few francs that the experts in France could get the info out a bit more quickly than that ...