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The Civil Aviation Department (CAD) retrieved the Digital Flight Data Recorder (DFDR) and the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) from the wreckage in the aircraft accident at about 5 pm today (Tuesday).

"The two Recorders will be sent to the Air Accident Investigation Branch of the UK Department of Transport tonight," a spokesman for the CAD said.

"The wreckage is planned to be removed from the scene later tomorrow to a vacant site near to HK Aircraft Engineering Company's Hangar," he added.

End/Tuesday, August 24, 1999

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