One of the Air France A332 black boxes now found totally destroyed!

According to Aviation Herald one of the Air France Airbus A330-200 (CF6-80E engines), registration F-GZCP performing flight AF-447 (dep May 31st) from Rio de Janeiro,RJ (Brazil) to Paris Charles de Gaulle (France) with 216 passengers and 12 crew black boxes is now found but not at all intact;

"On Apr 27th 2011 the BEA announced, that the recovery work has started. During the first more than 12 hours' dive of Remora 6000 the chassis of the flight data recorder, however without the crash surviveable memory unit containing the data, was found surrounded by debris from other parts of the aircraft."




Source: Aviation Herald; http://avherald.com/h?article=41a81ef1/0053&opt=0

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