Recovered a black box of the Air France Airbus 330

One of the two black boxes of the Air France Airbus 330 flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, which sank in the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009 was rescued yesterday, announced the Office of Investigations and Analysis (BEA, in their French acronym), responsible for the investigation of the disaster, which left 228 dead.

"The research team has located and identified the register memory module parameter [flight, Flight Data Recorder, FDR] at 10.00 GMT [noon to mainland Spain]. It was brought to the surface at 16.40 GMT" according to the statement released by the BEA.

Investigators on Wednesday had announced the recovery of the black box housing, but without the memory module, which contains the flight data may explain the disaster. The module is detached from the housing would no doubt at the time of impact with the ocean floor.