T he device that records the last two hours of the cockpit conversation as well as the bodies were retrieved Saturday from a still-active fire zone, police and crash investigators said. It will record also any of the aural alarms or warnings,” crash investigator Greg Hood told reporters. The plane was not equipped with a flight data recorder, which is mandatory for airliners. The Americans’ relatives who began arriving Saturday will be offered an opportunity to visit the hillside crash site, officials said. Wildfires have claimed at least 33 lives in Australia since September, destroyed more than 3,000 homes and razed more than 10.6 million hectares (26 million acres).

Source: ABC News January 25, 2020 07:08 UTC