flight data recorder

Singaporean investigators have extracted data stored in the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder of the aircraft.

The helicopter wasn’t required to have a cockpit voice recorder or a flight data recorder and didn’t have either, Graham said.

The Air Force has also recovered the flight data recorder, or “black box,” which is critical to the accident probe.

The fire was so intense it destroyed the Osprey’s flight data recorder — another issue the Marines have pushed to fix, by requiring new flight data recorders to be better able to survive a crash.

Recovering the four air crew and the black box flight data recorder have been the main priorities since an MRH-90 Taipan helicopter crashed on July 28 during a nighttime operation in the Whitsunday Islands off the northeast Australian coast.