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Flight data successfully extracted from Air France black boxes
May 16, 2011


Investigators analyzing the wreckage of Air France Flight 447 successfully extracted data from the black boxes on Monday, including all information from the flight data recorder and a loop containing the last two hours of cockpit voice recordings, Reuters reported.

The digital chips and memory cards inside the flight-data and cockpit-voice recorders discovered recently under roughly 12,000 feet of water were found to be in good condition with scant evidence of salt water corrosion, said earlier reports.

The data will now be analyzed in detail, and it will take several weeks before an interim report is written and published this summer, France's BEA air investigation agency said in a statement.

Air France Flight 447 disappeared June 2009 while flying through heavy storms from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.

More detailed story here http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/17/wo...ef=global-home