4-May-2011 9:50 AM
Second AF447 flight recorder retrieved
Air France announced (03-May-2011) it has been informed by the BEA - the French body responsible for technical investigations into civil aviation accidents or incidents - that a second flight recorder (Cockpit Voice Recorder) from AF447, the Airbus A330 operating the Rio-Paris-Charles de Gaulle flight which disappeared over the Atlantic on 01-Jun-2009, has been located and retrieved. [more]