An Update On Air France 447
The BBC reports that the Air France crash ‘black box site found in Atlantic’
French government and military officials have urged caution, saying there is no guarantee the flight recorders will be found.
“It’s like trying to find a shoe box in an area the size of Paris, at a depth of 3,000m (9,800ft) and in a terrain as rugged as the Alps,” French navy spokesman Hugues du Plessis d’Argentre told AFP.
…Air France flight AF447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris disappeared on 1 June 2009 in stormy weather, killing all those on board.
What they have done is reduced the probable location of the data recorders down to a 5 kilometer search area. This was possible by reviewing all of the data from the various search vessels that scanned the bottom while the transmitter beacons on the recorders were still working.
Now they will be deploying submersibles to search this much smaller zone.
