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From: jis1@mtgzz.UUCP (j.mukerji)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.india
Subject: Re: News of Air India Crash
Message-ID: <920@mtgzz.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 14:10:46 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 12 14:10:46 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 13:39:49 EDT
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Organization: AT&T Information Systems Labs, Middletown NJ
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Keywords: Air-India, Crash

Both the black boxes, the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data
recorder have been recovered. They are being sent to Bombay, India where
their contents will be analyzed in an attempt to pinpoint the cause of the
crash.

This remarkable feat of recovery from 6700' under the ocean was achieved
using an underwater robot named Scarab I, which is used by AT&T  and other
communications companies to service and repair undersea cables. The Scarab I
and its twin newer version Scarab II were designed and built at AT&T Bell
Laboratories at Holmdel between 1977 and 1981. Scarab is an acronym for
Submersible Craft Assistant for Repair and Burial. It can operate at depths
of upto 9000'.

Jishnu Mukerji
AT&T Information Systems Lab.
Holmdel  NJ
+1 201 8342989
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