By Dickson Omobola
Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau, NSIB, has disclosed that the flight crew of the private jet that landed on a road in the Ogwashi-Uku area of Delta State overwrote the aircraft’s black boxes.
In aviation, the black boxes, comprising the Cockpit Voice Recorder, CVR, and Flight Data Recorder, FDR, capture cockpit audio, aircraft systems and flight performance data to help investigators determine the causes of incidents or accidents and improve aviation safety.
Addressing newsmen virtually, Friday, Director-General of the NSIB, Capt Alex Badeh Jr, said between the time the incident occurred and when the aircraft departed for Lagos, the crew overwrote the recorded data, making the investigation more challenging.
He, however, said investigators relied on other available evidence to reconstruct the sequence of events and determine what happened.
