Taipei Times
Date: Jan 08, 2020
By: Staff Writer, with CNA
The air force yesterday said it would send two flight data recorders retrieved from the wreckage of a
Minister of National Defense Yen De-fa bows yesterday when attending a memorial service held at the Taipei Guest House for late chief of the general staff general Shen Yi-ming and seven other military officials who died in a helicopter crash last week.
Photo: Wang Yi-sung, Taipei Times
The UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter carrying military personnel to Dongaoling Base (東澳嶺) in Yilan County went down in the mountains of New Taipei City’s Wulai District (烏來) on Thursday with 13 people on board. Eight died in the crash, including Chief of the General Staff General Shen Yi-ming (沈一鳴).
The data recorders need to be sent to Sikorsky Aircraft, the helicopter’s US-based manufacturer, for a comprehensive analysis, the air force said.
An air force official on Sunday said that the military was not planning to send the data recorders to the US unless it encountered difficulties in retrieving the data. [FULL STORY]
