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Search team find part of crashed Air France flight black box casing
Apr 27, 2011, 19:11 GMT
Paris - Searchers have found part of the casing housing the black box flight recorders from the Air France flight which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean two years ago, the French authorities announced Wednesday.
However, it appeared that the casing was empty, with no sign yet of the so-called Crash Survivable Memory Unit, containing data which may explain the cause of the disaster, which killed all 228 passengers and crew in June 2009.
After two years of largely fruitless deep-sea searches, a current exploration - paid for by Air France and Airbus, the manufacturer of the plane - has discovered large parts of the plane's submerged wreckage, including some bodies of the victims.
The black box casing was found by a diving robot, remotely controlled from the surface.
The flight was travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, when it disappeared in bad weather from radar screens, and ceased making radio contact with air traffic controllers.
Speculation has pointed to stormy weather, and possibly icing up of some of the plane's speed sensors.
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