Part of a flight recorder from the Air France plane which crashed off the coast of Brazil in June 2009 has been discovered by search teams.
But officials said it was not the ‘black box’ section which would reveal crucial data about the cause of the crash, which killed all 228 people on board.
The tail section of the Airbus 330 was found on the floor of the Atlantic ocean earlier this month.
The recorder section was found while salvage teams began working to retrieve bodies.
According to BBC reports, France’s Bureau of Investigation and Analysis said in a statement yesterday: “During the first dive by the Remora 6000 which lasted more than 12 hours, the chassis of the flight data recorder was found, without the module protecting and containing the data.â€
A second dive is now under way.
The Air France plane, on its from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, crashed just hours after it took off. Most of those on board were French, Brazilian or German.
By Bev Fearis
