Second Recorder Recovered
The BBC reports that Air France cockpit voice recorder recovered
The cockpit voice recorder from an Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic two years ago has been found, French investigators have said.
The discovery comes two days after the airliner’s flight data recorder was also retrieved from the ocean.
Both recorders are said to be in good physical condition.
The Airbus A330 was flying from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil to Paris when it went down on 1 June 2009, killing all 228 people on board.
“We can now hope to find out what truly happened within the next three weeks,” French Transport Minister Thierry Mariani told French radio.
Earlier the Flight Data Recorder was located, so, if they still function, the two devices should indicate what the aircraft was reporting to the instruments in the cockpit, and what the aircrew were saying about those readings.
We know that the aircraft encountered severe weather over the Atlantic, but we don’t know why it went down.
