The report is due to publish end of April.
But I have to question what value the recorders would add to the investigation.
Certainly, it isn't a matter publicly explored by either CASA or the ATSB.
The report should be interesting with the ATSB being challenged under questioning to reopen the investigation. add in possibly breaching of both MOU and TSI act!
Love the focus on not recovering the recorders. However, the value in that decision is that it shows exactly what Beaker's mission at the ATSB is - get the bluddy budget under control - which, if you constrain the scope of the investigation to not look past the obvious, this accident exemplified in spades.
Could explain the 'who' approach and ignore the 'why'