Air France flight recorders readable: investigators...

[SierraPoppa]

French investigators said Monday they have recovered all the flight data and cockpit voice recordings from the recorders of an Air France jet found in the Atlantic depths nearly two years after it crashed.

The recorders were located by underwater robots and hoisted up from depths of nearly 4,000 meters earlier this month, in one of the most expensive and complicated air crash investigations in history.

The cause of the crash is unclear, and investigators and victims' families are hoping the recorders will shed light on what sent Air France Flight 447 into the sea June 1, 2009, en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 people aboard were killed.

The French air accident investigation agency BEA said Monday that an international team downloaded the material from the "black box" voice and data recorders over the weekend.

"These downloads gathered all of the data from the Flight Data recorder, as well as the whole recording of the last two hours of the flight from the Cockpit Voice Recorder," the agency said in a statement.

Balance of CBC news article here: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011 ... order.html

[Mig29]

That's some good news in this terrible accident....looking forward to the final results.

[Hawkerflyer]

Fantastic news! Wonder what they will find?

[Troubleshot]

Looked like chaos....some info from the "boxes"

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 25674.html