Black box of missing EgyptAir plane found, pulled out of sea, Egypt says

[brooklynite]

Source: Los Angeles Times

Egypt's investigation committee says the cockpit voice recorder of the doomed EgyptAir plane has been found and pulled out of the Mediterranean Sea.

The committee says the so-called black box has been damaged but that the vessel searching for the wreckage has managed to safely pull the “memory unit which is the most important in the recorder.”

Thursday's announcement comes a day after the committee said that the vessel John Lethbridge, which was contracted by the government to join the search for the plane debris and flight recorders, has spotted and obtained images from the wreckage of the EgyptAir plane.



Read more: http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-egyptair-plane-voice-recorder-20160616-snap-story.html

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. There will be a data recorder as well? They're still looking for that?

I think that's the way that works: planes have a CVR and a data recorder. I'm not an expert.

[Plucketeer]

2. Yes - it is as you suggest. nt

[Eugene]

3. EgyptAir Flight 804: Cockpit voice recorder found damaged

Source: CNN

EgyptAir Flight 804: Cockpit voice recorder found damaged

By Salma Abdelaziz, Joe Sterling and Sarah Sirgany, CNN
Updated 1945 GMT (0345 HKT) June 16, 2016

(CNN) - The cockpit voice recorder for EgyptAir Flight 804 has been found but is damaged, an Egyptian investigative committee said Thursday, a day after the government said it found the wreckage of the ill-fated flight.

"The device was damaged and the retrieval process was conducted in several stages," the committee said in a statement.

It said a vessel used equipment to pick up the memory unit, which is considered the recorder's most important part.

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The recorder is being transferred to Alexandria, Egypt, for the investigation, the statement said.

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Searchers haven't found the other "black box," the flight data recorder, which gathers 25 hours of technical data from the airplane's sensors, recording several thousand distinct pieces of information. Among the details investigators could uncover is information about the plane's air speed, altitude, engine performance and wing positions.

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Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/16/middleeast/egyptair-wreckage-found/

[FLPanhandle]

4. CVR and Data recorder should all be uploaded real time via satellites.

The regulations need to keep up with modern technology.

[Blue_Tires]

7. Cost is still too high to make it universal

[Eugene]

5. EgyptAir crash: Second black box 'recovered'

Source: BBC

EgyptAir crash: Second black box 'recovered'

17 June 2016 Middle East

The flight data recorder from the EgyptAir plane that crashed in the Mediterranean Sea last month has been retrieved, Egyptian investigators say.

The news comes a day after search teams recovered the cockpit voice recorder from the wreckage of Flight MS804.

Both recorders, known as the "black boxes", are crucial to discovering why the Airbus A320 came down on 19 May, killing all 66 people on board.

The plane was flying from Paris to Cairo when it vanished from radar.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36557134

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. Additional link, Friday morning

EgyptAir Flight 804 Flight Data Recorder Recovered

Crash investigation team has now recovered most vital items

By Robert Wall in London and Dahlia Kholaif in Cairo
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Updated June 17, 2016 7:35 a.m. ET

Searchers recovered the flight data recorder from EgyptAir Flight 804, Egyptian officials said on Friday, a day after the plane’s cockpit voice recorder also was brought up from the Mediterranean Sea where the airplane crashed last month.

A specialized vessel, the John Lethbridge, belonging to Deep Ocean Search Ltd., was able to locate and recover the second “black box” early Friday, including the crucial memory unit where thousands of technical parameters of the plane are stored. The device is being taken to Alexandria where it will be handed to the Egyptian-led crash investigating team, Egyptian officials said in their latest update on the crash.

Both black boxes were recovered from a depth of around 3,000 meters (9,843 feet), Egyptian officials said.

Egyptian officials will try to extract information from the black boxes. The cockpit voice recorder is due at the laboratory in Cairo Friday, a person close to the probe said. Egypt has invested heavily to upgrade its ability to extract such information, safety experts said.