France will receive the black box recovered from a Nepali aircraft that crashed this weekend and killed all 72 people on board, the worst disaster for the country in 30 years.
The black box recovered from the crash site ofThe plane, an ATR-72, was on a 30-minute flight from theto Pokhara International Airport. First responders recovered voice recordings and flight data from the crash site on the second day of the search. The reason for the plane's sudden lurch to the ground is unknown, but Nepali authorities hope that France--where the plane was produced--can help decipher the data.
Nepal's Civil Aviation Authority plans to inspect the voice recordings on its own but has delivered the flight data to ATR's headquarters in France. A woman cries as the body of a relative, victim of a plane crash, is brought to a hospital in Pokhara, Nepal, Sunday, Jan. 15, 2023. Footage of the crash taken by eyewitnesses near the destination airport in Pokhara shows the plane descending smoothly toward a landing before the plane's left wing drops aggressively and the craft careens into a hill.
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