Magnetic tapes found at the site of the 1985 crash of an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 in the Andes Mountains contain no data from the airplane’s flight recorders and provide no information relevant to the accident investigation, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) says.
The magnetic tapes and several metal fragments were found in 2016 by two U.S. citizens hiking on Mount Illimani. They turned the material over to the General Directorate of Civil Aviation of Bolivia (Unidad AIG), which asked the NTSB in early January to examine the items.
In a Feb. 7 statement, the NTSB said it had conveyed its findings to Unidad AIG and that its examination of the materials “revealed no identifiable specific serial numbers. One metal piece was identified as a cockpit voice recorder rack. Other metal pieces were consistent with parts related to the flight data recorder pressurized container assembly.”…
