Jul 24, 2009, 9:24 PM

Part of Flight 7908 CVR found

Part of Flight 7908 CVR found

TEHRAN, July 24 (MNA) -- A small part of the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of the ill-fated Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 was found 15 meters below the surface of the ground at the crash site on Thursday.

Ahmad Majidi, the head of the special working group investigating the Caspian Airlines crash, said if the information in this part, which is seriously damaged, is usable, then the search to find the rest of the CVR will be halted.

 

Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 was en route to Yerevan, the Armenian capital, when it crashed on July 15 in northwestern Iran, killing all 153 passengers and 15 crew members. The plane, a Russian-made Tupolev, went down 20 kilometers from the city of Qazvin about 15 minutes after takeoff from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Airport.

 

Majidi also said that almost all the bodies of the victims have been handed over to their families, and added that no family members have yet been located to claim the remaining bodies.

 

PA/HG

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MNA 

 

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