After nearly two years of waiting, the light will perhaps finally be made on the Rio-Paris crash, Flight A330

Recovered Flight Data Recorder  

After nearly two years of waiting, the light will perhaps finally be made on the Rio-Paris crash. One of the two black boxes of the Airbus A330 of Air France, which had crashed at sea off Brazil on 1 June 2009, was recovered Sunday in the bottom of the South Atlantic, announced the Office of Investigation and Analysis ( BEA ).



The disaster had claimed 228 lives.


"The investigation team has located and identified the memory module of the flight data recorder, Flight Data Recorder (FDR) - Sunday morning at noon (French time). He was back on board the ship at 18:40 (Paris time), announced in a statement the Bureau of Investigation and Analysis (BEA), responsible for technical investigation.
Investigators from the French BEA (Bureau d’Enquetes et d’Analyses) have recovered the wreckage of Air France Flight 447, the remains of which search crews found on April 3. All 228 aboard the Airbus A330-200 flying from Rio to Paris died when it crashed on June 1, 2009.


The Ile de Sein, a ship supplied by Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN) and equipped with a remotely operated vehicle provided by Phoenix International, will leave Cape Verde began the recovery phase of the operation on April 21. The BEA will has given priority to finding and recovering the flight data and cockpit voice recorders. 


The Alucia ship, which launched the small Remus 6000 submarines that spotted the A330’s remains, left the area on April 9. The fourth search campaign started on March 25 and yielded positive results one week later. For once during the search effort, the BEA can consider itself lucky. The aircraft, scattered over a rectangle measuring 650 by 2,000 feet, lies 13,000 feet below the ocean’s surface on a flat part of the seabed in an otherwise mountainous area. Some debris have partially sunk into the sand.