Taitung: The military is still salvaging parts of a locally developed and built advanced jet trainer (AJT) that crashed in waters off eastern Taiwan a month ago but has recovered the aircraft's flight data recorder (FDR). Defense Minister Wellington Koo (???) told reporters on Thursday that the FDR of the T-BE5A Brave Eagle was recovered on Wednesday afternoon when the commissioned contractor salvaged the forward fuselage of the two-seater transonic AJT, which crashed five nautical miles off Taitung County's coast during a training exercise on Feb. 15.

According to Focus Taiwan, the military will analyze the FDR and other recovered equipment to determine the exact cause of the crash, Koo added.