JAKARTA: The National Transport Safety Committee (KNKT) chief Tatang Kurniadi said Monday that next year he planned to purchase devices able to read data from airplane black boxes.
A black box is a set of devices that records information and technical data during a flight.
"We have been a member of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) for 57 years but we still could not read a black box by ourselves," Tatang told a meeting at the House of Representatives's Commission V overseeing transportation issues.
"We should feel be ashamed about that," he said.
Tatang requested the commission approve a budget of Rp 8 billion (US$872,000) to purchase the reader.
Commission member Abdullah Azar Annas said he opposed the plan because it would be more efficient to send officials abroad to study the readers.
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