Investigators to reconstruct remains of stricken aircraft

INVESTIGATORS probing the Cork Airport tragedy will begin the painstaking task of reconstructing the shattered remains of the plane in a Co Meath hangar today.

Investigators to reconstruct remains of stricken aircraft

They will also start piecing together information on its altitude, its speed and the angle it approached the runway and other data to prepare a computer simulation of the final minutes of flight NM7100.

The information from the flight data recorder (FDR), found at the airport within hours of the crash, has already been downloaded by the Department of Transport’s Air Accident Investigation Unit (AAIU) at its Dublin headquarters.

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