Deep searches underway for jet data
June 10th, 2009 | Aviation Foreign navies Submarines | Posted by Andrew Scutro
The French nuclear-powered submarine Emeraude (S 604) has arrived to begin searching for the black boxes from Air France flight 447, it was announced earlier. Yesterday two of the U.S. Navy’s pinger locators were sent down to Brazil to help find the signal emitted from the sunken flight data recorders. A defense official told us yesterday the pinger locators, usually used to locate lost military aircraft, will be towed from French tugboats. One was to start the search today, run by contract operators and Navy personnel.