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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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