Podcast: Air France 447 - Finding the "Black Box"

Podcast: Air France 447 – Finding the “Black Box”

Editorial Staff

Monday, May 09, 2011 at 12:00 AM ET

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Key Takeaways:

Air France Flight 447, an Airbus A330, was lost with all 228 people aboard on June 1, 2009, hundreds of miles off Brazil in 14,000 feet of ocean.
A challenging deep-sea search operation successfully located and led to the retrieval of the aircraft's critical voice and flight data recorders in a vast, mountainous area 14,000 feet below the surface.
Mike Purcell of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution served as chief of sea search operations, leading the mission that found and retrieved the recorders in May.

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The Airbus A330 that was Air France Flight 447 was lost with all 228 aboard on June 1, 2009 in 14,000 feet of ocean hundreds of miles off the coast of Brazil. In the end, searchers went looking in a 5,000 nautical mile mountainous area 14,000 feet below the surface of the ocean and found an object that’s about one square foot big. AVweb‘s Glenn Pew talks with Mike Purcell of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Purcell was chief of sea search operations for the mission that this May found and led to the retrieval of the aircraft’s critical voice and flight data recorders.

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