AirAsia alarms 'ringing' just before crash - investigator
- 9 years ago
Alarms on board the AirAsia flight QZ8501 that crashed into the Java Sea were “ringing out” as pilots desperately tried to control the plane – according to reports quoting an investigator.
The information has not been officially confirmed.
The investigator from Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee, who requested anonymity, told the AFP news agency that the noise of several alarms was recorded by the black box in the Airbus A320-200’s cockpit.
He added that the pilots’ voices were drowned out by the sound of the alarms.
The comments come a day after the Indonesian Transport Minister Ignasius Jonan said the jet had climbed too quickly, before stalling and plunging into the sea.
Search and recovery teams have been preparing special balloons they hope to use to raise the fuselage and other debris from the sea bed.
“We already have 70 balloons. We have arranged for the search areas to be divided up so that we and local authorities in Banda Aceh will carry out th
The information has not been officially confirmed.
The investigator from Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee, who requested anonymity, told the AFP news agency that the noise of several alarms was recorded by the black box in the Airbus A320-200’s cockpit.
He added that the pilots’ voices were drowned out by the sound of the alarms.
The comments come a day after the Indonesian Transport Minister Ignasius Jonan said the jet had climbed too quickly, before stalling and plunging into the sea.
Search and recovery teams have been preparing special balloons they hope to use to raise the fuselage and other debris from the sea bed.
“We already have 70 balloons. We have arranged for the search areas to be divided up so that we and local authorities in Banda Aceh will carry out th