Pakistani investigators this morning found the data recorder from AirBlue flight 202, which crashed in heavy rain near Islamabad this week killing all 152 people onboard.
The Airbus 321 crashed on Wednesday into a steep and heavily wooded hillside overlooking the capital shortly before landing after a flight from the southern port city of Karachi.
'It (the data recorder) has been recovered from the scene, from the tail of the plane,' Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters near the site of the crash.
The Director General of the Civil Aviation Authority, Junaid Ameen, told the private television channel Geo that both the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder had been found.
Thick fog and rainy weather are considered the most likely reasons for the worst aviation accident on Pakistani soil.
