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AF 447 Flight Recorder Found In the Atlantic
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."
Here is nice video covering the recovery operation
CNBC has nice overview of the recovery operation.
Really amazing stuff
I have trouble finding my car keys some days.
I'm sure if you spent a couple dozen million dollars, you would find your car keys very quickly.
Surely at that price it would be more cost effective to just buy a new car every day. $24M @ $30k per car would get you 800 days or over 2 years before you have to go searching for another day's car. If you drive a cheaper car and/or buy in bulk you could probably push that to 3 1/2 years. Or better yet buy or fit one out so that it's keyless. Of course your car won't be as cool as anything that can submerge a few thousand feet and still operate, but hey thems the breaks kid.
These posts express my own personal views, not those of my employer
Lets hope that the bastards at Airbus are made to pay for their crappy design.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
Its interesting, especially the robots they have used.