Salvage Crew of Tokyo Jet Crash Search Wreck for Black Boxes

An international team of investigators is combing through the wreckage of the two aircraft that collided at Tokyo Haneda airport on Jan. 2 as they seek to establish what caused the runway incursion, with the voice and data recorders set to provide vital readouts of the fateful final moments before impact.

The cockpit voice recorder from the smaller De Havilland Canada Dash 8 was recovered a day after the accident, and local media reported the flight recorder of the much larger Airbus SE A350 operated by Japan Airlines Co. was retrieved Thursday. The JAL plane will be cleared from the runway Friday morning so that operations can resume.

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