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Investigators were also expected on Wednesday to begin downloading data from the cockpit voice recorder, which retains conversations on the flight deck and between the pilots and air traffic controllers.
The first officer in the Colgan Air turboprop, earning about $24,000 a year and living with her parents on the West Coast, had stayed up all night to fly in to begin her work shift at Newark the day of the fatal flight, and the captain had also showed signs of fatigue, based on data from the cockpit voice recorder.
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They will have to integrate radar data, statements from witnesses who said the plane began to wobble in the sky, information from the cockpit voice recorder, and clues gleaned from the wreckage by laboratory technicians.
The AAIB team will now go through the information from the cockpit voice recorder which will give them two hours of pilots' conversations as well as studying the contents of the flight data recorder (FDR).
Investigators are analysing data from the aircraft's cockpit voice and flight data recorders with advisers from Airbus, the plane's manufacturer.
He said investigators have downloaded all of the data from the aircraft's cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder and are analysing them along with advisers from Airbus, the plane's manufacturer.
On Wednesday, French officials said usable data had been extracted from the cockpit voice recorder but that it was too early to draw any conclusions.
French investigators say usable data has been extracted from the cockpit voice recorder of Germanwings 4U 9525 but it has so far yielded no clues as to the cause of the plane's crash.
It was also unclear if, after being immersed in salt water for nearly two years and under significant pressure, the data they contain — voice recordings from the cockpit and information on the plane's position, speed, altitude and heading when it ran into trouble — would be sufficiently readable to advance the investigation.
One of the tasks ahead of the investigators is to correlate the radar information with the sounds from the cockpit voice recorder and the data gleaned from the flight recorder.
Data from the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) were downloaded by the National Transportation Safety Board in the United States commencing July 20 and 23 respectively.
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