The Aircraft Crashed And Burst Into Flames
Accident investigators are searching for the aircraft's
black-box flight recorders
Such words are sometimes heard on TV
news reports about aircraft accidents...
Australia was one of the first countries to introduce this
requirement and today, all aircraft on the Australian register with
a maximum takeoff weight greater than 5,700 kg are required to
carry both a cockpit voice recorder (CVR) and a flight data
recorder (FDR).
These 'black boxes' are in fact painted orange to help in their
recovery following an accident. They are also fitted with
battery-powered sonar transducers to aid underwater recovery.
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