French investigators say they have recovered the second flight recorder from the Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Brazil almost two years ago. The NOVA reconstructed the doomed flight's final moments in We went back to some of the experts who helped us reconstruct the conditions of the crash to get their views on what the discovery of the black boxes means--and whether we will finally be able to close the book on this mystery.
Once stabilized, the recorders will be transported aboard a French Navy ship to Paris for analysis.
French investigators say they have recovered the second flight recorder from the Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Brazil almost two years ago.
It was the ground personnel that found the problem and relayed back to the capsule the safe solution that saved the astronauts lives. Data might even be recoverable from corroded chips, said Cable: "If corrosion were to sever the very fine connectors within chips, it would probably be possible to make repairs; albeit a very delicate and time consuming process. The mystery of Air France Flight 447, the Airbus A330 that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009, may soon be solved. The journey will take a little over a week.From there, an initial readout from the devices, which amounts to "replaying the flight" from takeoff to landing, should be available with 24 hours, said Captain Of course, added Alder, "It all depends on the data retrieved being usable or accessible." Total of 127 bodies out of 228 now have been recovered since accident on June 1, 2009 Brazilian searchers found a large tail section from an Air France jet Monday, one of the biggest pieces yet recovered from wreckage that could help narrow the search for Flight 447's black boxes. ""Standard procedure after recovering a recorder from underwater is to store and transport it while immersed in fresh water, in order to minimize corrosion and salt crystal and mud deposition," said Cable.
Recordings from the black box of Air France flight 447 show that the captain was not in the cockpit when the plane lost speed, according to the German paper Der Spiegel. 9/11, et al) or has errors in it since no one is looking at it, or using it in real-time to find malfunctions.
"I remain convinced that the ACARS [Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System] messages clearly show that there was a loss of reliable airspeed to the crew and to aircraft systems," said Cable. We got the astronauts back from the moon by ground personnel monitoring the data in real-time. The aircraft's data and voice recorder were found with wreckage from the airliner more than 13,000 feet below the ocean's surface.Flight 447 had taken off from Brazil and was bound for Paris when, at 35,000 feet and nearly four hours into the flight, the plane apparently encountered heavy icing. The flight data recorder was If the data can't immediately be retrieved from the recorders, though, there is still hope: The manufacturer of the recorders may be able to remove the chips and take data from them chip by chip, explained Cox. "As this is arguably the most vital single parameter for both, I find the accident unsurprising, even if the exact way in which control was lost is unknown." Yet, this valuable digital flight recorder data (DFDR) data has been essentially left to the autopsy mode for post mortem simulations and not utilized proactively in real-time to save lives on cargo and carrier aircraft. Air France Crash Investigators to Open 'Black Boxes'
"In general, up at altitude, you don't have a lot of extra room," said Voss, "because the engines are producing just enough thrust to keep you there and you have a fairly small margin for where the nose can be tilted to maintain altitude. This website was produced for PBS Online by WGBH. On June 1, 2009, Air France Flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic, killing all 228 people on board.
Total of 127 bodies out of 228 now have been recovered since accident on June 1, 2009
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Debris from Air France flight 447 being recovered in 2009, after the crash.