I find these interesting. I can understand high altitude and deep seas issues, but the fact that the WTC recorders were not recovered speaks volume to poor engineering and workmanship. Most likely low level factory workers.


Date of crash Flight No. Airline Plane type Presumed location Notes
1965-08-16 389 United Airlines Boeing 727-22 Lake Michigan, off Chicago, Illinois Resting in 76 m (249 ft) of water; FDR recording media never found[1]

1970-05-02 980 ALM Douglas DC-9-33CF Caribbean Sea Resting in 5,000 ft (1,500 m) of water; neither recorder found[2]
1973-07-22 816 Pan American World Airways Boeing 707-321B Pacific Ocean, off Papeete, Tahiti Resting in 700 m (2,300 ft) of water; neither recorder found[3]

1975-09-30 240 Malйv Tupolev Tu-154 near the Lebanese shoreline Resting in between 600 and 1,000 m (2,000 and 3,300 ft) of water[4]
1979-01-30 cargo Varig aircraft PP-VLU Boeing 707-323C in the Pacific Ocean, around 200 kilometers East Northeast from Tokyo, Japan The aircraft debris were never located and thus, neither the CVR and FDR was found and the cause of the crash was never determined.[5]

1985-01-01 980 Eastern Air Lines Boeing 727-225 25 nmi (46 km) from La Paz at the 19,600 ft (5,970 m) level of Andean peak Mt. Illimani. Due to the extreme high altitude and inaccessibility of the accident location, the FDR and CVR were never recovered.[6]

1987-11-28 295 South African Airways Boeing 747-244B Combi Indian Ocean, near Mauritius CVR located at 4,900 m (16,100 ft); FDR not found.
1987-11-29 858 Korean Air Boeing 707-3B5C Andaman Sea Neither flight recorder was ever found.[7]
1992-10-04 1862 El Al Israel Airlines Boeing 747-258F Groeneveen and Klein-Kruitberg flats in the Bijlmermeer, Amsterdam Zuidoost One Black Box was found. The tape was broken in 4 pieces. The last 2:45 minutes were unreadable.[8]

2001-09-11 11 American Airlines Boeing 767-223ER North World Trade Center, New York City [9]
2001-09-11 175 United Airlines Boeing 767-222 South World Trade Center, New York City [9]

2001-10-04 1812 Siberia Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 Black Sea Neither flight recorder found.
2004-10-14 1602 MK Airlines Boeing 747-244(SF) Halifax, Nova Scotia FDR Recovered; CVR mutilated in post crash fire

2009-11-18 2009 Pel-Air Westwind ditching[10] Pel-Air IAI 1124A Westwind II Norfolk Island No fatalities.

2012-06-03 992 Dana Air McDonnell Douglas MD-83 Lagos, Nigeria CVR recovered; FDR mutilated in post crash fire
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