Air France Flight 447 Cockpit Voice Recorder Photos
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Black box to be sent to France for analysis.
The cockpit voice recorder, designed to last only 30 days beneath 20,000 feet of seawater, was brought up from the floor of the Atlantic nearly two years after the Airbus 330 was lost at sea.The cockpit voice recorder will be shipped to BEA headquarters in France this week, where investigators will determine what, if any, voice data is recoverable.**A crew of 69 men worked to recover the flight data recorder of AF 447 after it was spotted using a Remora 6000 submarine.
**Both the AF 447 cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder, shown here, appear to be in good condition, according to officials. However, the units will not be opened until they reach BEA headquarters in France.The finding of the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder occurred one month after searchers first discovered the location of AF 447 beneath the Atlantic. To see the earlier wreckage photos, click here.
