The voice recordings of the crew of the Turkish military aircraft that crashed on the Georgia-Azerbaijan border have been examined, the Turkish Ministry of National Defense said, APA’s Türkiye bureau reports.
According to the ministry, after analyzing the voice recorder of the C-130 aircraft, it was determined that everything in the digital data, including the crew’s communications and the aircraft’s systems, was normal until the moment of the crash, and the incident occurred suddenly. It was emphasized that due to the separation of the aircraft’s tail section from the fuselage, the electrical and data cables related to the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) were severed, and therefore, no additional data clarifying the cause of the crash was found in the flight recorder.
The Ministry of National Defense also stated that a detailed inspection of the aircraft’s engines and propellers revealed that they had been functioning properly before the crash.
“No signs of damage were found on the aircraft’s fuselage as a result of the separation of the propellers,” the statement said.
In November last year, a Turkish C-130 military transport aircraft en route from Azerbaijan to Türkiye crashed in Georgian territory. All 20 people on board were killed in the accident.