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In reply to the discussion: Black boxes from South Korea plane crash failed to record final 4 minutes: Officials [View all]regnaD kciN
(27,406 posts)28. Not possible...
...because they couldn't access data from one of the two recorders and sent it off to the NTSB to have its electronics repaired. The NTSB repaired it and found the four minutes missing, while the Korean investigators tried to get data off the other recorder and found the same.
Since these losses happened just after the reported bird strike, it seems to point to the hypothesis that the right-side engine was lost because of the bird strike, and the crew accidentally shut down the left-side engine instead, basically killing the power. That same scenario happened once before, with a British MIdlands flight back in 1989, an incident now known as the Kegworth air disaster.
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Black boxes from South Korea plane crash failed to record final 4 minutes: Officials [View all]
BumRushDaShow
Jan 2025
OP
S. Korean's probably deleted last 4 minutes then sent to NTSB afterwards. Whoops.
spudspud
Jan 2025
#21
Are you saying there is no possible way to have removed the data then damaged it so the NTSB could repair it afterwards
spudspud
Jan 2025
#31
And on top of that blowing the teardrop back to the field, ending up way long & fast
EX500rider
Jan 2025
#37
Me thinks something stinks in this story. I guess the engineers that designed
flashman13
Jan 2025
#8
If all that you have is the battery that last thing you want to do is try and start the APU.
Angleae
Jan 2025
#11
From what i have read the black boxes are not on the short list of the things the batteries power
EX500rider
Jan 2025
#38
Don't think it will be a manufacturer issue in this case, more like pilot error
EX500rider
Jan 2025
#14