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AF 447 Flight Recorder Found In the Atlantic

Posted by timothy on from the famous-memory-part dept.

romiz writes "The memory of the flight recorder for the Air France 447 flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, crashed on June 1st 2009, has been found on the seabed of the Atlantic Ocean, and brought back to the surface in good shape. This is the data recorder, which saves the flight parameters. The search is still continuing in hope of finding the voice recorder containing the sounds recorded in the plane's cockpit."

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  1. Re:Amazing by Luckyo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is quite possibly one of the best examples of just how far underwater robotics have come. They literally found something that is harder to find then a needle in a haystack by several orders of magnitude.

  2. Re:Amazing by John+Hasler · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think it's worth mentioning that the French found it.

    With more than a little of help from the Americans at WHOI .

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  3. Re:I don't get this by Solandri · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Now, go jump in a lake with it.

    Where are you? What? No GPS lock?

    During an underwater robotics conference I attended, one of the presenters was describing their attempt at using GPS for location fixes every time their autonomous underwater vehicle surfaced in the ocean. They ended up trashing the idea because they found that as little 5 mm of seawater on top of the GPS antenna would prevent a GPS lock.