Air France 447 Black Boxes Readable 116
An anonymous reader writes "It's not a lengthy press release, but it's good news: the memory cards for the flight data and cockpit voice recorders from the Air France 447 crash in 2009, recently recovered from the sea floor almost two years later, are readable. The data was recovered over the weekend and includes the full two hours of cockpit recording. Apparently it will take weeks for analysis of the data, but it looks like the challenging recovery effort is paying off in a big way. Hopefully detailed answers about the cause of the crash will follow."
Re:Yey for solid-state memory! (Score:2, Insightful)
Probably an endless stream of cussing towards Airbus and "that damned computer".
The only wires planes should fly by should be steel wires.
Re:Yey for solid-state memory! (Score:5, Insightful)
Tell that to B-2 pilots.
Actually scratch that. Tell that to ANY modern pilot, be he military or civilian. For added bonus, tell that to greens all over the world and be lynched on the spot, as unstable aircraft are significantly more fuel efficient and can only be flown with fly-by-wire. Trying to fly it manually will result in very spectacular and fiery ending.