List_of_unrecovered_and_unusable_flight_recorders
Flight data recorders (FDRs) and cockpit voice recorders (CVRs) in commercial aircraft continuously record information and can provide key evidence in determining the causes of an aircraft loss. The greatest depth from which a flight recorder has been recovered is 16,000 feet (4,900 m), for the CVR of South African Airways Flight 295. Most flight recorders are equipped with underwater locator beacons to assist searchers in recovering them from offshore crash sites, however these beacons run off a battery and eventually stop transmitting. For various reasons, a flight recorder cannot always be recovered, and many recorders that are recovered are too damaged to provide any data.
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| Crash date | Flight | Airline | Plane | Presumed location | Broad cause | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961-09-17 | 706 | Northwest Airlines | Lockheed L-188 Electra | O'Hare International Airport | Accident | FDR destroyed by the impact.[1] |
| 1965-08-16 | 389 | United Airlines | Boeing 727-22 | Lake Michigan, off Chicago, Illinois | Accident | FDR fragmented by the impact; parts of the outer cover were found but the foil tape containing the data was not.[2] |
| 1966-03-05 | 911 | British Overseas Airways Corporation | Boeing 707-436 | Mount Fuji, Japan | Accident | FDR destroyed by post-impact fire. The airplane was not required to carry a CVR.[3] |
| 1966-04-22 | 280/D | American Flyers Airline | Lockheed L-188 Electra | Ardmore Municipal Airport | Accident | FDR stopped recording mid-flight. The airplane was not required to carry a CVR.[4] |
| 1966-08-06 | 250 | Braniff International Airways | BAC 1-11-203AE | Richardson County, Nebraska | Accident | FDR destroyed in the crash.[5] |
| 1966-10-01 | 956 | West Coast Airlines | DC-9-14 | Near Wemme, Oregon | Accident | CVR destroyed by post-crash fire. |
| 1966-11-15 | 708 | Pan American World Airways | Boeing 727-21 | Near Dallgow in former East Germany | Probable Accident | The plane crashed in Soviet territory; only half of the wreckage was relinquished by Soviet authorities. The fate of the CVR and FDR is unknown. |
| 1970-02-05 | 603 | Dominicana de Aviación | Douglas DC-9-32 | Caribbean Sea, near Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic | Accident | Neither flight recorder was ever found.[6] |
| 1970-05-02 | 980 | ALM | Douglas DC-9-33CF | Caribbean Sea | Accident | Resting in 5,000 ft (1,500 m) of water; neither recorder found.[7] |
| 1971-06-06 | 706 | Hughes Airwest | DC-9-31 | San Gabriel Mountains near Los Angeles, California | Accident | CVR destroyed by post-crash fire. |
| 1971-07-30 | 845 | Pan American World Airways | Boeing 747-121 | San Francisco International Airport | Accident | CVR overwritten.[8] |
| 1972-06-29 | 290 | North Central Airlines | Convair CV-580 | Lake Winnebago, near Appleton, Wisconsin | Accident | One of two aircraft involved in the 1972 Lake Winnebago mid-air collision. An estimated 50% to 60% of the wreckage was recovered from the shallow, muddy water. FDR found in good condition; CVR not found. |
| 1972-12-08 | 553 | United Airlines | Boeing 737-222 | Near Midway International Airport | Accident | The FDR was inoperative due to a mechanical malfunction.[9] |
| 1973-07-22 | 816 | Pan American World Airways | Boeing 707-321B | Pacific Ocean, off Papeete, Tahiti | Accident | Resting in 700 m (2,300 ft) of water; neither recorder found.[10] |
| 1973-08-28 | 742 | Trans World Airlines | Boeing 707-331B | Pacific Ocean near Los Angeles | Accident | CVR overwritten.[11] |
| 1974-09-08 | 841 | Trans World Airlines | Boeing 707-331B | Ionian Sea, near Greece | Bomb | By the time the main wreckage was located, conclusive evidence of a bomb explosion had been found, and it was decided that whatever additional information the recorders held would not justify the cost and difficulty of recovering them. Neither of the recorders were ever found. |
| 1974-12-04 | 138 | Martinair | Douglas DC-8 | Maskeliya, Sri Lanka | Accident | FDR completely disintegrated by impact. Small fragments of the foil tape from the unit were recovered from the crash site, but all of the fragments were from the supply spool of the recorder, and thus did not contain any flight data. The aircraft did not carry a CVR. |
| 1975-09-30 | 240 | Malév | Tupolev Tu-154 | near the Lebanese shoreline | Unknown | Resting in between 600 and 1,000 m (2,000 and 3,300 ft) of water; neither recorder found.[12] |
| 1975-11-12 | 032 | Overseas National Airways | McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30CF | John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City | Accident | CVR destroyed by post-crash fire. |
| 1976-04-05 | 60 | Alaska Airlines | Boeing 727-81 | Ketchikan International Airport, Ketchikan, Alaska | Accident | CVR destroyed by post-crash fire.[13] |
| 1976-08-15 | 232 | SAETA | Vickers Viscount 785D | Chimborazo volcano, Ecuador | Accident | Speculation surrounding the existence of both the FDR and the CVR followed the discovery of the plane's remains in 2002, after being lost for 26 years. Civil aviation authorities claimed it didn't carry any device, but a former SAETA pilot claimed that the Viscount carried at least the FDR. A former SAETA executive also claimed that the plane was acquired with both devices. In the end, due to the crash site's high altitude, harsh weather, and inaccessible and remote location, it was declared a holy field (de facto and de jure graveyard) and no investigation was made into the causes of the crash.[14] |
| 1976-10-13 | N730JP | Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano | Boeing 707-131F | El Trompillo Airport, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia | Accident | The FDR was inoperative at the time of the accident. The CVR's cockpit area microphone was inoperative and did not record any useful information as a result.[15] |
| 1977-09-02 | 3751 | Transmeridian Air Cargo | Canadair CL-44 | 2.5 Nautical Miles east of Waglan Island | Accident | Recovery was hampered by bad weather and poor visibility. Undersea cables in the area precluded the use of dredging equipment, making salvage operations very difficult. Only 25% of the wreckage was recovered after an extensive effort; the CVR and FDR were not found. |
| 1977-12-18 | 730 | SA de Transport Aérien | Sud Aviation Caravelle | 4 kilometers southeast of Funchal Airport, Portugal | Accident | Aircraft was located but largely not recovered from the sea, it was not stated in the accident report which types of flight recorders were carried, only that none were recovered.[16] |
| 1977-12-18 | 2860 | United Airlines | Douglas DC-8F-54 | Near Kaysville, Utah | Accident | The CVR was inoperative at the time of the accident.[17] |
| 1978-03-01 | 603 | Continental Airlines | McDonnell Douglas DC-10 | Los Angeles International Airport | Accident | The CVR was inoperative at the time of the accident.[18] |
| 1979-01-30 | 967 | Varig | Boeing 707-323C | Pacific Ocean, around 200 kilometers East Northeast from Tokyo, Japan | Unknown | The aircraft debris was never located and thus, neither the CVR and FDR was found and the cause of the crash was never determined.[19] |
| 1979-05-25 | 191 | American Airlines | McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 | Des Plaines, Illinois | Accident | The separation of engine one caused the cockpit voice recorder to cut off and lose power one second later, causing the last 31 seconds of the crash to not be recorded.[20] |
| 1981-05-07 | 901 | Austral Líneas Aéreas | BAC One-Eleven | Río de la Plata, near Buenos Aires, Argentina | Accident | Neither flight recorder was ever found.[21] |
| 1981-05-24 | HC-BHG/FAE-723 | Ecuadorian Air Force flight, in behalf of the Ecuadorian Government | Beechcraft Super King Air | Huairapungo Hill, Loja Province, Ecuador | Accident (officially) | The existence, and possible whereabouts, of the CVR and/or FDR has been disputed. High-ranking Air Force officers stated to a 1992 inquiry by the Congress of Ecuador that the black box equipment wasn't acquired with the plane because it was considered "optional." The acquisition expedient did not show that either device was acquired, and Beechcraft claimed that it had no record of selling or providing either device. In spite of this, and that, at least officially, none was found at the crash site, the possibility that black boxes existed has been speculated on. The head of the 1992 parliamentary inquiry criticized the Ecuadorian armed forces for cordoning off the area and removing debris without any judicial process or security protocols.[22] |
| 1983-01-11 | 2885 | United Airlines | Douglas DC-8F-54 | Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Romulus, Michigan | Accident | The FDR malfunctioned during the accident.[23] |
| 1982-09-13 | 995 | Spantax | McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30CF | Málaga Airport, Málaga, Spain | Accident | CVR destroyed by post-crash fire. |
| 1985-01-01 | 980 | Eastern Air Lines | Boeing 727-225 | 25 nmi (46 km) from La Paz at the 19,600 ft (5,970 m) level of Andean peak Mt. Illimani. | Accident | Due to the extreme high altitude and inaccessibility of the accident location, the FDR and CVR could not be recovered.[24] A team of three mountain climbers attempted to find the recorders in 2016, recovering part of the recorder mounting rack and a magnetic tape which they believed may have come from the CVR.[25] The NTSB determined that the tape was not from a flight recorder.[26] |
| 1985-01-21 | 203 | Galaxy Airlines | Lockheed L-188 Electra | Near Cannon International Airport, Reno, Nevada | Accident | The FDR was inoperative at the time of the accident.[27] |
| 1985-02-19 | 006 | China Airlines | Boeing 747SP-09 | Pacific Ocean, near San Francisco, California, United States | Accident | CVR data overwritten due to the aircraft being repaired and returned to service.[28] |
| 1985-07-10 | 5143 | Aeroflot | Tupolev Tu-154B-2 | Uchkuduk, Uzbekistan (formerly Uzbek SSR) | Accident | CVR completely destroyed by impact, explosion, and post-crash fire. |
| 1985-12-12 | 1285R | Arrow Air | Douglas DC-8-63CF | Gander International Airport, Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada | Accident | The CVR was unusable as its cockpit area microphone was inoperative at the time of the accident and did not record any information.[29] |
| 1987-11-28 | 295 | South African Airways | Boeing 747-244B Combi | Indian Ocean, near Mauritius | In-Flight Fire | CVR located at a depth of 4,900 m (16,100 ft), but the quality of the audio was very poor and only the last 30 minutes were recorded. In that, much of the conversation was unknown and the tape stopped when the emergency began, possibly due to the fire burning the wires to the CVR. FDR not found. |
| 1987-11-29 | 858 | Korean Air | Boeing 707-3B5C | Andaman Sea | Bomb | Neither flight recorder was ever found.[30] |
| 1988-07-03 | 655 | Iran Air | Airbus A300 | Persian Gulf | Shot Down | Neither flight recorder was ever found.[31] |
| 1989-03-10 | 1363 | Air Ontario | Fokker F28-1000 | Dryden Regional Airport, Dryden, Ontario | Accident | CVR and FDR destroyed by post-crash fire. |
| 1989-09-08 | 394 | Partnair | Convair CV-580 | Sea, near Copenhagen, Denmark | Accident | Both recorders found, CVR stopped working before takeoff, FDR yielded distorted data. |
| 1990-01-25 | 052 | Avianca | Boeing 707 | Cove Neck, New York | Accident | The FDR was inoperative at the time of the accident.[32] |
| 1990-09-11 | OB-1303 | Faucett Perú | Boeing 727-247 | Atlantic Ocean, 350 miles southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland | Accident | Plane and all sixteen aboard missing, along with the CVR and FDR. Aircraft was being returned to Peru after lease to Air Malta. Crew reported a low fuel notice and that they were preparing to ditch. 16 occupants were on board[33] |
| 1991-05-26 | 004 | Lauda Air | Boeing 767-3Z9ER | Phu Toei National Park, Suphan Buri Province, Thailand | Accident | FDR destroyed by post-crash fire.[34] |
| 1992-01-03 | 4821 | CommuteAir | Beechcraft 1900C | Gabriels, New York | Accident | CVR destroyed by post-crash fire. The airplane was not required to carry an FDR.[35] |
| 1992-01-20 | 148 | Air Inter | Airbus A320-111 | Mont Sainte-Odile | Accident | FDR destroyed by post-crash fire.[36] |
| 1992-06-06 | 201 | Copa Airlines | Boeing 737-204 Advanced | Darien Gap, near Tucuti, Panama | Accident | Both recorders found, but CVR tape was broken in several pieces, and the recording recovered from it was from a different flight. |
| 1992-09-10 | 015 | Expreso Aéreo | Fokker F27-500 | Bellavista airstrip, San Martín Region, Peru | Accident | The CVR's magnetic tape was found to have been burned by the post-crash fire. The FDR was found not to be working properly at the time of the crash, as the tape was not connected.[37] |
| 1992-09-28 | 268 | Pakistan International Airlines | Airbus A300B4-203 | Kathmandu, Nepal | Accident | Both recorders found, but no conversation can be heard on CVR, rendering it unusable.[38] |
| 1992-10-04 | 1862 | El Al | Boeing 747-258F | Groeneveen and Klein-Kruitberg flats in the Bijlmermeer, Amsterdam Zuidoost | Accident | FDR found but severely damaged, with the tape broken in four pieces; CVR not found.[39] |
| 1992-11-24 | 3493 | China Southern Airlines | Boeing 737-3Y0 | 12.5 miles south of Guilin Airport, China | Accident | FDR found but severely damaged, with the tape being exposed to the post crash fire; CVR not found.[40] |
| 1992-12-07 | 012 | China Airlines | McDonnell Douglas MD-11 | 20 miles east of Japan | Incident | The CVR was overwritten.[41] |
| 1993-04-06 | 583 | China Eastern Airlines | McDonnell Douglas MD-11 | Near the Aleutian Islands | Accident | The CVR experienced a mechanical malfunction and did not contain any data from the accident flight.[42] |
| 1994-04-06 | 9XR-NN | Rwanda Government | Dassault Falcon 50 | 1 Nautical Mile East of Kigali Airport, Kigali, Rwanda | Shot Down | The whereabouts and even the existence of the CVR and/or FDR has been disputed. Multiple independent investigations have been unable to determine the location of any flight recorders the aircraft may have carried. A proper examination of the crash site was not conducted until 15 years after the shootdown, by which time a majority of the wreckage had been displaced or scavenged.[43] The manufacturer performed maintenance on the airplane a year before the crash, during which they documented that no recorders were installed (though mounting racks were in place for the operator to install them if they later decided to).[44] Rwandan aviation laws at the time required all airplanes used for transporting the head of state to carry both a CVR and an FDR. The possibility that recorders were installed at some point between the work performed by Dassault and the shootdown has not been ruled out. |
| 1994-12-21 | 702P | Air Algérie, leased from Phoenix Aviation | Boeing 737-200 | Willenhall, Coventry | Accident | The FDR did not record any data from the accident flight.[45] |
| 1995-08-09 | 901 | Aviateca | Boeing 737-200 | San Vicente, El Salvador | Accident | The FDR was not found at the crash site, possibly scavenged from the site by locals.[46] |
| 1995-12-20 | 41 | Tower Air | Boeing 747-136 | John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City | Accident | The FDR was inoperative during the accident due to a data acquisition unit problem.[47] |
| 1996-02-29 | 251 | Faucett Perú | Boeing 737-222 | Ciudad de Dios, Cerro Colorado District, near Arequipa, Peru | Accident | The FDR was usable, but the partly-burned and partly-damaged CVR had its magnetic tape broken at its beginning and only recorded isolated Spanish-language voices, possibly made during maintenance duties. Thus there was no recording of the flight crew's final moments before the crash. The airline claimed to have acquired the CVR in mid-1995, and to have done maintenance on it in two occasions immediately prior to the crash; however, the CVR's interior showed December 1989 as the date of its last opening.[48] |
| 1996-06-09 | 517 | Eastwind Airlines | Boeing 737-2H5 | Richmond International Airport, Richmond, Virginia | Incident | CVR overwritten.[49] |
| 1996-10-22 | 406 | Millon Air | Boeing 707-323C | Manta, Ecuador | Accident | The FDR presented malfunctions that precluded precise and full readouts of its data. The device was reportedly retrofitted into the aircraft and also lacked adequate documentation.[50][51] |
| 1997-12-06 | RA-82005 | Ukrainian Cargo Airways | Antonov An-124-100 | Mira Street, Irkutsk, Russia | Accident | The two flight recorders were in the center of the fire and were too badly damaged to provide meaningful data.[52] |
| 1997-12-28 | 826 | United Airlines | Boeing 747-122 | Pacific Ocean | Accident | CVR overwritten.[53] |
| 1998-09-29 | 602 | Lionair | Antonov An-24RV | Off the coast of Iranaitivu, Mannar District, Sri Lanka | Shootdown | No trace of either the FDR or the CVR was found among the 30% to 40% of the aircraft's wreckage that was salvaged in 2013. Only a highly corroded and damaged debris was later identified as the auxiliary data recorder.[54] |
| 2000-01-30 | 431 | Kenya Airways | Airbus A310-304 | Atlantic Ocean, East of Félix-Houphouët-Boigny International Airport, Abidjan, Ivory Coast | Accident | The FDR data did not correspond to any kind of flight.[55] |
| 2000-05-21 | N16EJ | East Coast Aviation Services d/b/a Executive Airlines | British Aerospace Jetstream | Bear Creek Township, Pennsylvania | Accident | The CVR did not record data from the accident flight. The airplane was not required to carry an FDR.[56] |
| 2001-09-11 | 11 | American Airlines | Boeing 767-223ER | North World Trade Center, New York City | Hijack | Neither flight recorder was ever found.[57] |
| 2001-09-11 | 175 | United Airlines | Boeing 767-222 | South World Trade Center, New York City | Hijack | Neither flight recorder was ever found.[57] |
| 2001-09-11 | 77 | American Airlines | Boeing 757-223 | Pentagon, Washington D.C. | Hijack | CVR too badly damaged by fire to provide any information.[57] |
| 2001-10-04 | 1812 | Siberia Airlines | Tupolev Tu-154 | Black Sea | Shootdown | Resting in 3,300 ft (1,000 m) of water; neither recorder found.[58] |
| 2002-05-04 | 4226 | EAS Airlines | BAC One-Eleven 525FT | Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano, Nigeria | Accident | The FDR was recovered but inoperative; the CVR was never found.[59] |
| 2002-07-28 | 9560 | Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise | Ilyushin Il-86 | Near Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow, Russia | Accident | The CVR did not record the flight crew's conversations.[60] |
| 2003-05-25 | N844AA | Aerospace Sales & Leasing | Boeing 727 | Luanda, Angola | Unknown | Aircraft stolen, current whereabouts are unknown. |
| 2004-10-14 | 1602 | MK Airlines | Boeing 747-244(SF) | Halifax Stanfield International Airport, Halifax, Nova Scotia | Accident | CVR was exposed to extreme heat for an extended period which melted the recording tape.[61] |
| 2005-02-03 | 904 | Kam Air | Boeing 737-200 | Pamir Mountains, Afghanistan | Accident | Crash site located at a near inaccessible area of the Pamir Mountains. Most of the wreckage was buried in deep snow, and specialists had to clear landmines from the area before it could be accessed. FDR found with extreme difficulty (though it did not contain data due to a pre-existing fault in the data acquisition unit). The CVR was never found, and at least one investigator was killed during the search. |
| 2005-09-05 | 091 | Mandala Airlines | Boeing 737-200 Advanced | Polonia International Airport, Medan | Accident | Both recorders found, but CVR was of poor quality, rendering it unusable. |
| 2005-10-22 | 210 | Bellview Airlines | Boeing 737-200 | Lisa Village, Ogun, Nigeria | Accident | Neither recorder found.[62] |
| 2005-12-19 | 101 | Chalk's Ocean Airway | Grumman G-73T Turbine Mallard | Miami Beach, Florida | Accident | Not equipped with FDR; CVR recovered but nothing audible could be recovered from it.[63][64] |
| 2006-08-13 | 2208 | Air Algérie | Lockheed C-130 Hercules | Piacenza, Italy | Accident | The aircraft carried an older FDR which was inoperative at the time of the accident.[65] |
| 2007-11-30 | 4203 | Atlasjet | McDonnell Douglas MD-83 | Keçiborlu, Turkey | Accident | The CVR was inoperative for 9 days before the crash. FDR only recorded the first 14 minutes of the flight.[66] |
| 2008-08-24 | 6895 | Iran Aseman Airlines | Boeing 737-219 Advanced | Manas International Airport, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan | Accident | The FDR tape was damaged by fire leading to a 13 seconds cut in data. The CVR was inoperative prior to the flight. It contained the recording of a previous flight.[67] |
| 2009-10-21 | 2241 | Azza Transport | Boeing 707-330C | 2 miles north of Sharjah International Airport | Accident | Neither the FDR or the CVR were recording during the flight.[68] |
| 2009-10-21 | 188 | Northwest Airlines | Airbus A320-212 | Minnesota, United States | Incident | The CVR was overwritten.[69] |
| 2010-11-11 | ST-ARQ | Tarco Airlines | Antonov An-24 | Zalingei Airport, Zalingei, Sudan | Accident | The FDR did not contain any data and the CVR contained 4 minutes of recording of a different flight.[70] |
| 2011-07-28 | 991 | Asiana Airlines | Boeing 747-400F | Korea Strait | Accident | FDR was recovered but the memory module was missing inside the chassis. CVR not recovered.[71] |
| 2012-06-03 | 0992 | Dana Air | McDonnell Douglas MD-83 | Iju-Ishaga, Lagos, Nigeria | Accident | Both recorders recovered, but the FDR was destroyed.[72] |
| 2012-12-09 | N345MC | Private Aircraft | Learjet 25 | Iturbide, Mexico | Accident | FDR recovered but with too much damage to yield any data. CVR not found at crash site, investigators could not determine whether the airplane was equipped with one at the time of the crash.[73] |
| 2014-03-08 | 370 | Malaysia Airlines | Boeing 777-2H6ER | South Indian Ocean | Unknown | Plane and all 239 passengers and crew missing, along with the CVR and FDR. |
| 2014-07-24 | 5017 | Air Algérie | McDonnell Douglas MD-83 | Near Gossi, Mali | Accident | CVR quality was unusable.[74] |
| 2015-08-16 | 267 | Trigana Air | ATR 42-300 | Near Oksibil, West Papua, Indonesia | Accident | Both recorders found, but FDR was not working at the time of accident. |
| 2015-09-05 | 6V-AIM | Senegalair | Hawker-Beechcraft HS125-700A | Atlantic Ocean, west of Dakar, Senegal | Accident | Plane and all seven aboard missing, along with the CVR and FDR. |
| 2018-04-18 | 30 | Delta Air Lines | Airbus A330-323 | Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta, Georgia | Accident | CVR data overwritten by other recordings.[75] |
| 2021-07-06 | 251 | Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air | Antonov An-26B-100 | Palana, Russia | Accident | Both recorders recovered, but the CVR was too badly damaged to retrieve data from it. |
| 2023-06-04 | N611VG | Private aircraft | Cessna Citation V | Mine Bank Mountain | Accident | CVR has not been recovered. The airplane was not equipped with an FDR.[76] |
| 2024-01-05 | 1282 | Alaska Airlines | Boeing 737 MAX 9 | Over Portland, Oregon, United States | Accident | CVR overwritten by other recordings.[77] |
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As a result of the examination of the parametric recorder FDR 980-4100 GQUS it was found that a 320mm section of the carrier (magnetic tape) was exposed to high temperature. The information on this section cannot be restored. cannot be recovered. Based on the fact that the tape speed is 12.2 mm / sec, and given the location of the magnetic heads, there is no record of the last part of the flight. about 13 seconds is missing. Recorded audio information corresponds to the flight Moscow-Bishkek (flight IRC 632). It is impossible to establish the date of the flight. Information about of flight B737-200 EX-009 on 24.08.2008 is missing. This testifies to the fact that the CVR recorder in flight on 24.08.2008 was not operational.
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According to recent maintenance inspection records, the airplane as of May 2023 was equipped with a cockpit voice recorder (CVR), however, at the time of this publication, a CVR had not been located. The airplane was not equipped with a flight data recorder, nor was it required to be.
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