Black box recovered while search for three missing persons continues following Rivers helicopter crash

Black box recovered while search for three missing persons continues following Rivers helicopter crash

The flight information recorder (FDR) and the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from the doomed Sikorsky SK76 helicopter which collided with the Atlantic Sea off the bank of Bonny Finima, Streams State, have been recuperated.

The Nigerian Wellbeing Examination Department (NSIB) unveiled this in a proclamation on Friday, Nov. 8, by Head of Public Undertakings and Family Help, Airhead Oladeji.

On October 24, the doomed airplanes, worked by East Wind Flying and recruited by the Nigerian Public Petrol Organization (NNPC) Restricted, plunged in Port Harcourt, the state capital.

Fourteen days after the heartbreaking occurrence, NSIB representative, said the black box was recovered early Friday.

She said the gadgets were found as a team with Search and Recuperation accomplices NNPC, NIMASA, the Nigerian Naval force, and HydroDive.

“The Nigerian Wellbeing Examination Agency (NSIB), related to the Pursuit and Recuperation accomplices NNPC, NIMASA, the Nigerian Naval force, and HydroDive, has recuperated the Flight Information Recorder (FDR) and Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) from the Sikorsky SK76 helicopter, enrollment 5N BQG, which dumped in the Atlantic Sea off the bank of Bonny Finima on October 24, 2024.

“Since the mishap, NSIB and its Pursuit and Recuperation accomplices have facilitated a hunt and recuperation exertion in a joint effort with neighborhood and worldwide accomplices to find and recover the collections of the departed and the basic parts vital for an exhaustive examination.

“The FDR and CVR, ordinarily alluded to as the airplane’s “black box,” was recovered early today,” the assertion read.

By dissecting information from the gadgets, examiners can sort out the occasions paving the way to the accident and distinguish its goal.

The NSIB representative said recuperated recorder has been gotten for transport to the department’s information examination lab.

“It will go through information extraction and examination by NSIB’s experts to acquire bits of knowledge into the functional and specialized conditions going before the mishap and to assist with deciding the reason for the mishap,” she expressed.

The Chief General of the NSIB, Skipper Alex Badeh Jr., complimented the recuperation groups and focused on the significance of the examination.

He said, “The recuperation of the Flight Information Recorder and Cockpit Voice Recorder denotes a great move toward understanding what prompted this terrible mishap. The black box holds essential data that will give priceless understanding into the arrangement of occasions paving the way to the mishap, which will assist us with deciding the reason and illuminate any fundamental wellbeing proposals.

“While our viewpoints are with the groups of those still unaccounted for, purposeful endeavors are being made to track down the missing people and give replies to the families impacted by this mishap.”

The airplane, conveying six travelers and two group individuals, dove into the Atlantic Sea close Bonny Finima, off the bank of Calabar.

Three bodies have been recuperated from the site of the accident. Look for three missing people proceeds.