JAKARTA: The black box of the ill-fated Garuda jetliner has been deciphered, but the public must now wait up to three months before the information is disclosed, a chief investigator said Wednesday.
Mardjono Siswosumarno, who leads the investigation on the Boeing 737-400 crash that killed 22 of its passengers, said the cockpit voice recorder contained the last 30 minutes of conversation before the accident.
"We can hear everything from the pilot's and co-pilot's conversations to flight attendants giving instructions to passengers," Mardjono was quoted as saying by Detik.com news agency.
Earlier, the airliner's flight data recorder had been successfully read in Australia by the Australian Transportation Safety Bureau (ATSB). The bureau later sent the badly-burnt voice recorder to its maker, Honeywell, in Seattle for deciphering. -- JP
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