Hyderabad, September 5
The probe into the air disaster that killed Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Rajasekhar Reddy and four others commenced today with the recovery of black box of the ill-fated helicopter, which crashed in the Nallamala forest area of Kurnool district on September 2.
A team of Greyhounds, an elite anti-Naxalite wing of the state police, found the cockpit voice recorder during search operations in the area and handed it over to the investigators from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).
The DGCA investigating team, headed by RK Tyagi, held a meeting with the local civil and police officials at Kurnool. The team, which was scheduled to visit the crash site at Paavuralagutta hillock today, could not take up the journey because of inclement weather.
The investigators are expected to visit the site tomorrow.
