AF447 'Black Boxes Located'

I believe you are right

I would have thought that by now, without locating the remains of the aircraft and/or the black boxes, all that can be done already has been.
Is anyone still searching for AF447, or has that also been called off?

On this one I believe you have hit the nail on the head. It’s so quiet that it is likely that all searching has been abandoned.

Possibly legal compensation won the day with bereaved families which still sadly leaves a lot technically unanswered.

I would have thought that by now, without locating the remains of the aircraft and/or the black boxes, all that can be done already has been.
Is anyone still searching for AF447, or has that also been called off?

Has anyone any news – its been quiet for a long time ?

Has anyone any news – its been quiet for a long time ?

I found these today –

In French at URL– http://www.bea.aero/docspa/2009/f-cp090601e1/pdf/f-cp090601e1.pdf
Quite useful tables, charts and info at the back for those who aren’t fluent in French.

In English at URLs –
http://www.bea.aero/docspa/2009/f-cp090601e1.en/pdf/f-cp090601e1.en.pdf
http://www.bea.aero/docspa/2009/f-cp090601e2.en/pdf/f-cp090601e2.en.pdf
http://www.bea.aero/en/enquetes/flight.af.447/flight.af.447.php

Well they found the Helderberg’s flight recorders at about 6000m I think it was.

I’ll go fully with this argument.
The important thing is to give them positive encouragement (i.e. everyone who is involved from the actual experts at the ‘coal face’ to those who are financing the operation).
It’s worth waiting for – a further partial closure for those bereaved (usually never if no bodies are found), some clarification for Airbus Industrie and Air France and moreso the long term impact for aviation safety on long haul.

Well they found the Helderberg’s flight recorders at about 6000m I think it was.

I was also thinking how quiet the topic has gone. Given that the remains of AF447 are somewhere in an undersea mountain range, the search must be fearsomely difficult.
Is it still going on?

Given that it is 2 months since the last post on this thread on the topic of the black boxes search area being narrowed down, it must be a mammoth task.
More power to the elbows of the searchers though. Much can be gleened from the analysis of the data.

3000m isn’t the impossible, if they want it bad enough.

just extremely difficult!

Let’s hope that they can get them.

Seconded, the families of those lost, deserve answers 🙁

3000m isn’t the impossible, if they want it bad enough.

Let’s hope that they can get them.

Not quite found. Analysis of the data recorded when they were still emitting has enabled the search area to be narrowed down to 5 square km.

It’s about 3000 metres deep, & the bottom is very rugged: mid-Atlantic ridge, not abyssal plain. Not an easy place to find anything in.

Sounds as though retrieval is a very long shot. Are there examples of “black boxes” being recovered in exceptionally difficult circumstances?

Many thanks.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8664127.stm