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Then she leans over my digital recorder and gives a quick, wet Bronx cheer.

"We managed to con an afternoon with this new studio in King Street – it was a guy with a mixer and tape recorder."

Authorities have not confirmed the cause of the crash but Mahama confirmed that the flight data and cockpit voice recorders had been retrieved and that Ghana's armed forces had "initiated a full and transparent investigation".

His promise is captured by the reporter’s recorder, officially “on the record,” the band teases him.

But the preliminary report makes clear: the engines shut down because both fuel switches were moved to cut-off - a fact backed by recorder data.