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Eugene

(61,595 posts)
Fri Jun 24, 2016, 11:55 AM Jun 2016

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, Egypt’s 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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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/24/egyptair-flight-804-access-data-recorders-information-fail-



Associated Press
Friday 24 June 2016 01.56 BST
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EgyptAir MS804 flight recorders: efforts to extract data fail (Original Post) Eugene Jun 2016 OP
who would've thought the recorders might end up in salt water Demonaut Jun 2016 #1
The people who make them thought they might jmowreader Jun 2016 #2
Example of a flight recorder they were able to retrieve all the data from snooper2 Jun 2016 #3

jmowreader

(50,453 posts)
2. The people who make them thought they might
Fri Jun 24, 2016, 02:32 PM
Jun 2016

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)
3. Example of a flight recorder they were able to retrieve all the data from
Fri Jun 24, 2016, 04:03 PM
Jun 2016


West Air Sweden Flight 294.


Flight Recorder 101 for ya-


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