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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.
SAETA Flight 011 was a scheduled passenger flight operated by SAETA Air Ecuador between Quito and Cuenca, using a Vickers Viscount 785D aircraft. On 15 August 1976, the flight was reported missing near the Chimborazo stratovolcano while carrying 55 passengers and four crew members. Searches for the plane would be carried out for 26 years, until ...
A modern flight data recorder; the underwater locator beacon is the small cylinder on the far right. (Translation of warning message in French: "Flight recorder do not open".) The warning appears in English on the other side. Cold War-era Soviet MS-61 cockpit voice recorder from a MiG-21 interceptor
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According to this document (page 23), the flight data recorder was recovered, but the cockpit voice recorder was not. Another document provides a transcript alleged to be from the cockpit voice recorder. Apparently there were multiple questionable issues concerning this flight, including destruction of tapes made during rescue and cleanup.
Fox News got exclusive access to a recent repatriation flight on a C-17 military plane, where more than 80 illegal migrants were deported from El Paso, Texas, to Ecuador.
TAME Flight 173, [2] a Boeing 737-2V2 Advanced operated by Ecuador's national airline TAME, flying on a domestic route from the now-closed Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito to Mariscal Lamar International Airport in Cuenca, crashed on 11 July 1983 into a hill during final approach just 1 mile (1.6 km; 0.87 nmi) from its final destination, killing all 119 people on board.