MOT to retrieve flight recorder data from crash-hit flight 691

SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Transport MOT is helping Nepali authorities retrieve and process the data readout from the flight recorders of Yeti Airlines flight 691, which crashed in Pokhara on January 15.

This comes at the request of the investigation authority in Nepal. A ministry spokesman said on Thursday January 26 that the process will be carried out at MOT's Transportation Safety Investigation Bureau TSIB flight record readout facility, which was set up in 2007.

The progress of investigations and findings will be handled by the Nepalese investigation authority, a spokesman said.

A black box, commonly known as a flight recorder, is an electronic recording device placed in aircraft to aid in the investigation of aviation accidents and incidents.

It preserves engine sounds, instrumental warnings and other audio recordings during the flight. A cockpit voice recorder captures and stores audio signals from the microphones and earphones of headsets that pilots use.