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TSB #A 04/04

(Halifax, Nova Scotia, October 22, 2004) – The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is releasing a chronology of events, starting from the aircraft's departure in Luxembourg to the time of impact at the Halifax International Airport. The investigation is ongoing.

"We have developed a sequence of events to help us establish what happened," explains Bill Fowler, the Investigator-in-Charge of this investigation. "As the investigation progresses, the chronology of events will be updated as new information is uncovered."

To date, the two flight recorders have been found. Unfortunately, information could not be retrieved from the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) because of heat damage from the fire. The flight data recorder (FDR) has been sent to the TSB Engineering Laboratory in Ottawa, where technicians are working on extracting and analyzing the information.

The TSB is an independent agency that investigates marine, pipeline, railway and aviation transportation occurrences. Its sole aim is the advancement of transportation safety. It is not the function of the Board to assign fault or determine civil or criminal liability.