Tag: crash

• Sunday, May 1st 2011 - 23:38 UTC

  Air France flight 447 memory unit recovered from bottom of the Atlantic

  

  The memory unit that may tell why an Air France jet plunged into the Atlantic nearly two years ago was recovered from the bottom of the ocean Sunday, France's Bureau of Investigation and Analysis (BEA) said.

• Friday, May 7th 2010 - 03:33 UTC

  French Navy Locates Black Box from Air France that Plunged into the Atlantic

  

  The French navy has located the black box flight recorders from the Air France (EPA:AF) jet which plunged into the Atlantic killing 228 people last summer. However, officials said there was still no guarantee the recorders—that could explain the cause of the crash—would ever be brought to the surface.