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Airbus black box signal detected in Atlantic

23 June 2009 10:40 (UTC +04:00)

Baku â€“ APA. A French submarine detected from the flight recorders of the Air France jetliner that crashed over the Atlantic on June 1, Le Monde said on Tuesday, APA reports. There is no confirmation by Air France yet. The newspaper said nay involved two Nautile submarines able to work in 6000-meter depth in the searches.
There were concerns that the flight recorders are in the seabed and it couldnâ€™t be found because of complicated underwater relief in the searched zone. The officials said on June 4 that the black box signal could be received only a month later.
The Air France Airbus A330 carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris was lost four hours later after its takeoff over the Atlantic on June 1. The plane supposed to get shattered in air because it lost technical systems control.
Fifty bodies have been recovered from the crash zone, along with hundreds of pieces of the plane, and 11 of them were identified so far.