Noida twin towers demolition: 2 black boxes recovered

Two black boxes, placed inside the now-demolished twin towers in Noida for research purposes, have been recovered while discussions continued Thursday over the ongoing repairs in ATS Village and Emerald Court societies, officials said.While the complete post-demolition structural audit of the critical residential towers located within 50 metres of the twin towers is yet to be done, around one dozen window panes in Emerald Court and three dozen in ATS Village developed cracks and were being repaired, the officials said.
A nine-metre stretch of a boundary wall was damaged and it also came to light that some common areas and residential towers in the critical zone had developed ”cosmetic cracks”, they said.’Two black boxes which were placed inside the twin towers at the time of the demolition for research purposes have been recovered. There are eight more black boxes that are yet to be recovered,” Dr Debi Prasanna Kanungo, senior principal scientist at the Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), told PTI.”Other instruments like seismographs, thermal imaging cameras, photos and videos taken using drones that were deployed in surrounding areas of the twin towers are already with CBRI and the information collected by them is being analysed. The findings will help us in future studies,” the scientist said.