Air France crash 'flight recorder' found

[Bob Hubbard]

Search teams have found a part of the crucial "data recorders" of the Air France flight which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009, says France's Bureau of Investigation and Analysis (BEA).

The orange-colored recorder 'chassis' was found on Wednesday during the second day of an operation which also hopes to retrieve bodies from the wreckage site.

All 228 people aboard the Airbus A330 Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris were killed.

The find - which comes more than three weeks after search teams found the tail section of the aircraft -- does not include the "memory unit" which holds the recorded data that could eventually help investigators determine the cause of the crash.

The fact that they found this much amazes me. It's over 6,000 ft down. Farthest I ever dove was like 200 ft.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/04/28/air.france.447.airbus.recorder/index.html?hpt=T2