Air France Flight 447 Data Retrieved
Reuters reporter Tim Hepher prepared a report written by John Irish and edited by Elizabeth Peper in Paris today, May 16, 2011, that states data has been downloaded from both the voice and data recorders of Air France Flight 447, which crashed in the Atlantic enroute from Rio de Janeiro to Paris after a thunderstorm on June 1, 2009, killing all 228 souls on board.
Before the black boxes were located, investigators said no single cause for the crash was identifiable. The black boxes were recovered from two and one-half miles below the ocean’s surface and taken to Paris. The BEA agency said it has transferred all of the information stored in the black boxes. The data consists of the final two hours of cockpit conversations as well as all the information in the flight data recorder. Both boxes were meticulously dried out at BEA laboratories outside Paris.
The BEA previously said it would announce some results an findings in 2012, but Monday it changed this deadline to six months from now. A detailed analysis of the data is underway. An interim report is expected during the summer.
The BEA is expected to make two copies of the recordings – one for its own investigation and another for French judges examining the possibility of criminal misconduct. Reuters reports that both Air France and Airbus are under formal investigation because of the crash of Flight 447.
Summarized from: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110516/ts_nm/us_france_brazil_crash
Reuters reporter Tim Hepher prepared a report written by John Irish and edited by Elizabeth Peper in Paris today, May 16, 2011, that states data has been downloaded from both the voice and data recorders of Air France Flight 447, which crashed in the Atlantic enroute from Rio de Janeiro to Paris after a thunderstorm on June 1, 2009, killing all 228 souls on board.
Before the black boxes were located, investigators said no single cause for the crash was identifiable. The black boxes were recovered from two and one-half miles below the ocean’s surface and taken to Paris. The BEA agency said it has transferred all of the information stored in the black boxes. The data consists of the final two hours of cockpit conversations as well as all the information in the flight data recorder. Both boxes were meticulously dried out at BEA laboratories outside Paris.
The BEA previously said it would announce some results an findings in 2012, but Monday it changed this deadline to six months from now. A detailed analysis of the data is underway. An interim report is expected during the summer.
The BEA is expected to make two copies of the recordings – one for its own investigation and another for French judges examining the possibility of criminal misconduct. Reuters reports that both Air France and Airbus are under formal investigation because of the crash of Flight 447.
Summarized from: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110516/ts_nm/us_france_brazil_crash
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