The data on the flight recorders may help piece together what happened aboard the doomed jet
Flight recordings from an Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009 have been preserved and are readable, French investigators have said.
They said the material from the voice and data recorders, retrieved earlier this month off the Brazilian coast, will now be analysed. The readings include the last two hours of the cockpit voice recordings.
All 228 people on board were killed in the disaster.
"Following operations to open, extract, clean and dry the memory cards from the flight recorders, BEA safety investigators were able to download the data over the weekend," the BEA air investigation agency said in a statement.
"These downloads gathered all of the data from the flight data recorder, as well as the whole recording of the last two hours of the flight from the cockpit voice recorder
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