[Kharon]

Choc Frog for Comet.

Comet - “Which is a pity, as this is an historic occasion. It is the first time anywhere in the world that flight recorders have sat in shallow water in a known location, but a government crash investigation department waited six years to recover them.

Even in distant dictatorships and untrustworthy regimes of history, such a go-slow has never been documented before

Beat me to it Comet –“[but] a government crash investigation department waited six years to recover them” is not quite accurate – it took a Senate Inquiry and an embarrassing TSBC peer review to persuade the Minister to force ATSB to effect the retrieval and write a honest report. 

Had it not been for those two events, make no mistake, the CVR would still be where it fetched up.  The truly abhorrent part is the ATSB had to be forced, dragged screaming, to effect recovery and to reopen the investigation.  One can only wonder why.