Crash-Jet Investigators Recover Cockpit Voices Key to Probe
A handout picture made available by the French Aviation Authority BEA on March 25, 2015 shows the cockpit voice recorder (CVP) from the Germanwings A320 airplane that crashed in the French Alps on March 24, 2015.
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French air-accident investigators probing the loss of an Airbus A320 jet that crashed in the French Alps said voice recordings from the cockpit survived the impact, handing them vital clues in seeking to explain the tragedy.
While the so-called black box was damaged, the base unit containing its memory module remains intact and a usable data file has been extracted, Remi Jouty, director of the French BEA, which is leading the probe, said at a briefing in Paris.