French Announce Fourth Search For Air France Flight 447 Black Boxes

[joeyb747]

"France's Secretary of State for Transport Thierry Mariani announced on Nov 25th 2010, that a fourth search for the flight data recorders is planned to commence by February 2011 involving the best equipment available."

From:

http://www.avherald.com/h?article=41a81ef1/0052&opt=0

[toeknee25]

Hopefully they do find them and are able to prove what happened to the a/c. I do think that PBS's NOVA nailed it though

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/crash-flight-447.html

Even though it airs next year, it's already on netflix. Without ruining the outcome it's definitely a much watch and all of their conclusions are completely plausible.

[joeyb747]

While on the subject of AF 447, I found this article...good read...

http://atwonline.com/aircraft-engines-components/article/data-downlink-dilemma-0729