SEYNE, France — French search helicopters Wednesday ferried police officers and emergency personnel to the area where a Germanwings Airbus A320 slammed into the French Alps, leaving all 150 aboard feared dead, as authorities said a recovered black box was damaged but its vital data could be analyzed, pointing to an early break in the investigation into what caused the crash.
“It is possible to put together the elements from the black box and analyze it in the coming hours,” said French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve.
Black box examined for cause of plane crash in France
Investigators in France are examining Flight 9525’s black box, which was recovered from the wreckage in the French Alps. Mark Kelly reports.
The cockpit voice recorder, which is designed to store two hours of conversation and withstand impacts of as much as 3,400 times the force of gravity, could yield clues about whether the crew became incapacitated or were battling a technical malfunction. The device should also allow investigators to detect automated aural alerts from the plane that would help in reconstructing the sequence of events that led to the plane’s descent and eventual crash.
The first analysis from the recovered black box will likely be available Wednesday afternoon, French government spokesman Stéphane Le Foll said.
The other black box, the flight data recorder that stores 25 hours of data on the aircraft’s systems and would cover the entire duration of the flight from Barcelona until impact, hasn’t yet been recovered.
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