Air France Crash Recorder Found With ‘Rugged’ Data Unit Missing
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Investigators scouring the undersea wreckage of the 2009 Air France plane crash located part of one of the jet’s black-box recorders, which was missing the memory unit that stores the data.
The “extraordinary” finding will help narrow the search to recover the memory module and unravel why the plane plunged into the Atlantic Ocean, said Peter Goelz, a former managing director at the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board who is now a consultant at O’Neill & Associates in Washington.