Black boxes from 2009 Air France crash arrive

The next step is to determine if the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder survived the crash and the ocean depths where they were discovered

May 12, 2011 03:30 pm | Updated November 17, 2021 07:01 am IST - Le Bourget, France

Two flight recorders that could unravel the cause of an Air France crash almost two years ago have arrived at French investigators’ headquarters in a high security operation.

The next step is to determine if the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder survived the crash and the ocean depths where they were discovered

Dozens of police stood by as two white packaging boxes were removed on Thursday from a van at Le Bourget airport outside Paris. The recorders had travelled in a French Navy boat from the crash site to French Guiana and put on a plane for the airport.

Air France Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris went down on June 1, 2009, in the Atlantic killing all 228 people aboard.

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