Investigators Hope Recovered Flight Data and Cockpit Voice Recorders Shed More Light on AF447 Crash

Airbus, Air France and many others, both within and outside the aerospace industry, eagerly await the results of an analysis of the flight data and cockpit

The AF447's cockpit voice recorder lay on the seabed before search teams identified it and lifted to the surface, two days after the flight data recorder. (Photo: BEA)

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By Thierry Dubois • Writer

May 9, 2011

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