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

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Key Takeaways:

  • Air France Flight 447 crashed on June 1, 2009, resulting in 228 fatalities and sinking into 14,000 feet of ocean hundreds of miles off Brazil.
  • An extensive and challenging deep-sea search across a 5,000-nautical-mile area successfully located the aircraft's critical voice and flight data recorders.
  • Mike Purcell of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution led the sea search operations responsible for finding and retrieving these crucial black boxes 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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