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July 3rd, 2016 
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Christof Lehmann (nsnbc) : The Cockpit Voice Recorder of the Egypt Air Airbus A320 on flight MS804 that crashed in the Mediterranean in May has undergone repairs in France and the recordings can now be accessed by Egyptian investigators. The plane vanished from radar during a major military exercise led by USAFRICOM. So far, no passenger list or cargo manifest has been made available. In little more than two years four major airliners have vanished or crashed in areas with military exercises or conflict in progress.
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The cockpit voice recorder (CVR) and the flight data recorder (FDR) of the Egypt Air Airbus A320 were retrieved from the Mediterranean Sea on June 17-18. The airliner on flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo vanished from radar early on May 19.
On June 22 Egyptian officials reported that retrieving data from the CVR and FDR would take time because the recorders had been submerged in saltwater for a long time. On July 2, Egyptian government sources reported that
“Extensive examinations that were carried out at the French Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau; on the electronic board components of the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) of the A320 showed that none of the memory chips of the electronic board was damaged. However, some other supportive components associated with the communication and from the memory chips had to be removed and replaced with new ones, whereas advanced high technology will be used to extract the recordings from these units. After the replacement of the CVR board components, test results were satisfactory as it enabled the reading of the CVR memory unit”.
USAFRICOM Phoenix Express 2016 PR photo.
The Egyptian Investigation Committee reports that its members are planning to return back to Cairo with “the fixed boards to continue reading and analyzing the FDR and CVR at the central department for aircraft accidents at the Ministry of Civil Aviation”.
Official government sources also report that “Collecting human remains continues according to planned standard procedures”. Meanwhile, official sources also reported that “Death certificates were now being issued to the next of kin of the 66 passengers and crew who perished on board of the airliner”.
So far all of nsnbc’s attempts to attain a passenger list and cargo manifest from Egypt Air remained unanswered. Releasing passenger lists to the media and to the public is normal procedure after all next of kin have been informed. Egypt Air’s failure to even respond to inquiries raises red flags.
This is especially so because the Airbus A320 was flying across an area in the Mediterranean Sea where a USAFRICOM-led military exercise was in progress.
Kuala Lumpur Airport. Courtesy AAP, Newzulu Safiyan Salim.
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards prescribe that only final reports from air crash investigations will be made available to the next of kin, the public and the press.
The practice was in part implemented so as to “prevent premature scapegoating” after air disasters.
Next of kin, the global flying public and media will usually be left with no other option than to blindly believe that “authorities tell the truth”, or to protest and demand full disclosure. Calls for disclosure are consistently being ignored.
Egypt Air flight MS804 is one out of three large passenger jets that crashed or disappeared over an area where a military exercise or a conflict in progress.
In March 2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing “vanished”. The last regular contact between the jet and air traffic control occurred in an area where an international military exercise was in progress.
In July 2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 crashed in eastern Ukraine. The international investigation concluded that Malaysia Airlines as well as several other airlines had shown negligence by flying across an area where a conflict was known to be in progress.
On October 31, 2015 an Airbus operated by Kogalmavia Airlines (Metrojet) on Flight KGL9268 crashed in Egypt’s Sinai province; an area where an armed conflict was in progress.
Russian and Egyptian investigators would disagree whether or not the plane was brought down by a bomb on board the airliner.
The crash of Egypt Air Flight MS804 over an area where a military exercise was in progress adds to this sad statistic.
Four major air disasters correlated to conflict or military exercises in little more than two years. The development resulted in growing concerns about whether or not the ICAO regulations that are in use today need to be revised, so that independently testable evidence must be made available to the next of kin and independent journalists.
This would, as a minimum requirement have to include certified passenger and cargo manifests, certified copies of CVR and FDR data, radar data, and certified audio copies (not transcripts) of communications between the airliner and air traffic control. “Alleging” what data a “Black Box” contains translates into keeping the next of kin and the global flying public “in the dark”.
CH/L – nsnbc 03.07.2016
Source Article from http://nsnbc.me/2016/07/03/egypt-air-ms804-black-box-repaired-france-public-kept-dark/
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