The work on the flight and the cockpit voice recorders of the Pakistani airplane that crashed in a densely populated area, killing 97 people, will start from today (Tuesday) in France.

The Airbus A320 aircraft of the national carrier Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) had 91 passengers and a crew of eight when it crashed into the Jinnah Garden area near Model Colony in Malir, minutes before its landing. Ninety seven passengers were killed while eleven people on the ground were injured.

The technical experts who had come to investigate the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight PK-8303 crash have on Monday returned to France from Karachi after conducting five-day interrogation.

The 11-member team of technical advisers left on a special flight - Airbus A320. The process to decode the plane's flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) will begin in France from tomorrow.

Two members of investigation team from Pakistan have also left for France where the final crash report will be prepared by the Airbus technical advisers who collected important evidences from the crash site and also inspected runway.

The cockpit voice recorder (CVR) is a device used to record the audio environment in the flight deck for accidents and incident investigation purposes. It records and stores the audio signals of the microphones and earphones of the pilots' headsets and of an area microphone installed in the cockpit.

They visited the crash site during the week and inspected the debris of the aircraft and the runaway and found the cockpit voice recorder. Earlier, the flight data recorder of the plane was recovered.

The team conducted a forensic examination of the aircraft wreckage and also collected different parts of the plane that would help in identifying the cause of the crash.

They also used drone cameras for the purpose.

The team also visited the radar centre at the Jinnah International Airport and the runaway and reviewed the arrangements made for the landing and take-off of the planes, inspected the equipment in the radar room.

The team then visited the control tower and reviewed the code of conduct followed after receiving an emergency call.

© Pakistan Press International, source Asianet-Pakistan