Recording Is Not From ’94 Rwanda Plane Crash
From Times Wire Reports
A cockpit voice recorder found last week in a U.N. filing cabinet apparently was not on the aircraft that crashed in Rwanda a decade ago, killing two presidents and triggering that country’s 1994 genocide, the United Nations said.
The tape was played for the first time at the National Transportation Safety Board in Washington, said U.N. chief spokesman Fred Eckhard.
“Nothing heard so far on the tape links the cockpit voice recorder to the aircraft crash,” Eckhard said. It carried a cockpit conversation in French.
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