A search team located Air France Flight 447’s cockpit voice recorder and retrieved it from the Atlantic Ocean floor on Tuesday, nearly two years after the Airbus A330 crashed while en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, killing all 216 passengers and 12 crewmembers aboard.
The find comes just days after searchers from France’s BEA investigative unit found the airplane’s flight data recorder, which records in-flight instrument information, at a depth of 12,800 feet. The two black boxes are being shipped to BEA headquarters in France this week, where investigators will open the units and determine what, if any, usable data can be retrieved from them.
