© Stéphane Saissi PARIS—French air-crash investigators said they found and retrieved the cockpit voice recorder from an Air France jetliner that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean almost two years ago, less than two days after searchers found the plane's flight data recorder. The two "black boxes" will now be shipped to Paris for analysis, which officials said should … [Read more...]
Interesting Ship – ‘Ile De Sein’ to recover Air France Flight 447 data recorder
© Stéphane Saissi Cable laying vessel "Ile De Sein" selected to recover Air France flight 447 data recorder This weeks interesting ship is the Ile De Sein. Built in 2001, the vessel is owned by the telecommunications company Alcatel-Lucent and has been used for such jobs as part of a project to lay 9,000 kilometres of submarine cable between Sydney and Hawaii. Today, … [Read more...]