Submarine locates Air France crash black box zone
French news agency AFP has reported that the flight recorders from the Air France plane crash over the Atlantic last year that killed all its 228 passengers have now been located to within a 5km zone.
French official General Christian Baptiste revealed that the zone had been discovered by a naval submarine after a multi-million pound search but admitted that actually getting to the boxes that hold the key to why the Paris to Rio flight crashed may prove to be impossible.
Noone knows why Airbus SAS A330 plummeted into the ocean last June during a freak tropical storm. But the boxes, which contain recordings of flight data and cockpit conversations, are in a zone of water so deep that it is feared they may never be reached.
Phil Davies
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