Air France Black Box Retrieved
The BBC reports that a Air France flight data recorder recovered
One of two flight recorders from an Air France plane that crashed in 2009 off the coast of Brazil has been recovered, officials say.
France’s Bureau of Investigation said in a statement that the device was “in good physical condition”.
French search teams last week found the outer casing of the so-called black box recorder, but not its memory.
The Air France Airbus plane went down in the Atlantic on 1 June 2009, killing all 228 people on board.
If it can be read, it will go a long way towards explaining what happened. The picture indicates that it is still in good shape, but they won’t know for sure until it is inserted into a “reader”.
There are two recorders. One records the cockpit conversations for 30 minutes before it loses power, and the other records the data stream for the instrument panel.
