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A version of this article appears in print on March 24, 2022, Section A, Page 6 of the New York edition with the headline: China Finds Flight Recorder as Questions About Crash Mount.

He said they will be handed over to investigators. Pemba Sherpa, spokesperson for Yeti Airlines, also confirmed that both the flight data and the cockpit voice recorders have been found.

Or a fire could knock them out, as happened five minutes before Swissair Flight 111 crashed off the coast of Nova Scotia in 1998. Investigators are always looking for clues from the recorders.

In 1957, Dr. David Warren of ARL and his team, Kenneth Fraser, Lane Sear, and Dr. Walter Boswell, produced the world’s first black box flight recorder.

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On his flight to London in 1958 to demonstrate his invention, one of the engines of the airplane failed. He turned on his recorder and made observations from his passenger seat.