Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Found the black box housing the Air France plane

The robot submarine Remora 6000 has found at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean housing one of the two black boxes of Air France plane that crashed into the sea on 1 dejunio 2009. As reported by the Office of Research and Analysis for the security of the French civil aviation (BEA, in its French acronym).

In his first dive, which lasted over 12 hours, the robot has photographed the housing flight data recorder (FDR Flight Data Recorder) but has not found the memory unit (Crash Survivable Memory Unit, CSMU) which is which contains data that could shed some light on what happened to the Airbus 330 while covering the route Rio de Janeiro and Paris.

This morning started another raid on the ocean floor robot. The accident killed 228 people. The French authorities have launched search campaign fifth, after finding the April 2 the wreckage, about 4,000 meters deep on the abyssal plain some 1,300 miles north of Recife.

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