EgyptAir MS804 flight recorders: efforts to extract data fail
Source: Associated Press
Initial attempts to download information from the flight data and voice recorders of an EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean last month have failed, and key parts of the recorders are being sent to France for repairs, according to Egyptian and US officials.
The electronic boards of the recorders will be flown next week to the offices of the French aviation accident investigation bureau near Paris, authorities said. After the boards are repaired and salt removed, they will be sent back to Cairo for data analysis, Egypts investigation committee said in a statement late on Thursday.
The recorders, also known as black boxes, were extensively damaged when EgyptAir flight 804 travelling from Paris to Cairo plunged into the sea on 19 May, killing all 66 people on board.
French and US investigators have overseen the effort to extract information from the recorders. The recorders were made by Honeywell, a US company. The plane, an A320, is made by Airbus, which is based in France.
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Associated Press
Friday 24 June 2016 01.56 BST
Demonaut
(8,909 posts)jmowreader
(50,453 posts)A flight recorder is designed to survive being submerged to a depth of 6000 feet in ocean water. They can also handle a 3400-g impact. It is unimaginable just what you have to do to get an airplane to crash hard enough to break a flight recorder.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)West Air Sweden Flight 294.
Flight Recorder 101 for ya-