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Telegraph: Air France crash: 'black box signals located'

French naval vessels detected a weak signal from the flight data recorders, according to French newspaper Le Monde.

They said that a mini submarine has been dispatched on Monday to try and find the black boxes on the bottom of the ocean floor.

The "black boxes" may contain vital information that could help explain what happened when the Airbus A330 aircraft crashed into the sea en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris on June 1.

by Sassafras on Tue Jun 23rd, 2009 at 01:31:52 PM EST
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Xinhuanet: Signals not from crashed jet's black boxes: French official

Earlier, the French publication Le Monde reported that beacon signals emitted by the black boxes frequently from the day of the crash on June 1 were picked up by French ships and the mini submarine Nautile has been launched to investigate the signal.

    The aide to France's top transport official, Jean-Louis Borloo, told The Associated Press that the "black boxes have not been detected."

    She spoke on the condition of anonymity.

by Sassafras on Tue Jun 23rd, 2009 at 03:16:12 PM EST
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Is that trying to damp down anticipation ? After all, those things are gonna be a couple of miles down in (apparently) difficult terrain. They might not be findable/recoverable.

So, announcing they'd found them would be embarrassing until they'd assessed the situation.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Jun 24th, 2009 at 07:04:27 AM EST
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