Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Mystery Air Crash Black Box Found Sans Memory Part

Posted by Soulskill on from the curiouser-and-curiouser dept.

coondoggie writes "The ongoing undersea search of the Air France Flight 447 wreckage had yielded one of the key items investigators were looking for this week: the flight data recorder. Unfortunately, their hopes for more information about the crash were set back, as the robot subs scouring the ocean floor retrieved the box only to find its memory part missing."

2 of 205 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Memory Part? by 0123456 · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is a technical term for it, but basically it's the actual box on the recorder chasis which stores the data; I'm not sure whether it's magnetic storage or flash memory in this case.

    And separation is certainly not unknown, there was a crash a few years back where it also separated and was later found. Odds are this one will be too, but that could take some time if it's buried under other debris.

  2. Re:Memory Part? by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Could there have been any sort of sabotage?"

    Mischievous squids?