AFP - Investigators of flight AF447 from Rio to Paris announced Monday that it managed to "collect all the data contained" in the two black boxes of the Airbus A330 of Air France crashed in June 2009 and this summer will publish a first report the causes of the disaster.
After 23 months at the bottom of the Atlantic, all the data contained in the recorders could be read over the weekend and collected, said in a statement the Bureau of Investigation and Analysis (BEA) responsible for the technical investigation into the accident still unexplained.
Analysis of the black boxes would "take several weeks, after which a report will be drafted and made public during the summer," said BEA.
The two recorders, one containing the flight parameters, the other sound recordings in the cockpit, contain crucial data to try to explain the disaster, which had been 228 deaths there nearly two years off Brazil .
So far, investigators have determined that the malfunctioning (icing at high altitude) and speed sensors of the device, said pitot probes, manufacturer Thales, was one of the failures established in the disaster. But they believe that their failure can not alone explain the crash.
