Pakistan cargo crash families call for global help to recover black boxes
Families of the crew members lost in a recent cargo plane crash off the coast of Pakistan are calling for international assistance to recover the flight's black boxes. The wreckage lies at a depth of 3,000 meters, requiring specialized deep-water search capabilities that the local government has yet to secure.
Why it matters
The recovery of flight recorders is essential for determining the cause of the crash and providing closure to the families, highlighting the need for international cooperation in aviation safety investigations.
Relatives of the five crew members aboard a Boeing 737 cargo plane that crashed into the Arabian Sea off Pakistan last week are urging an international search effort to find the flight recorders to determine the cause.
Debris from the K2 Airways freighter was recovered shortly after the July 7 crash, but the water in the area is about 3,000 mt (9,800 feet) deep. Finding the “black boxes” would require a costly underwater search, likely to need foreign assistance, according to aviation experts familiar with deep-water crashes such as Air France 447 in 2009.
The locator beacons on the 27-year-old plane were designed to transmit pings for only 30 days. Recovering the recorders could show whether a navigation system issue reported shortly before the crash was linked to a navigation component that relatives say was replaced before the flight.
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