"Damaged black box will give answers"
"A senior accident investigator in France has dismissed claims one of the black boxes recovered from the wreck of the Air New Zealand Airbus A320 which came down in the Mediterranean last week is too damaged to yield useful results.
A member of the multi-national investigation team has told the NZ Herald that black boxes are tested at such length and extremes it is rare to find absolutely no data.
The source, a senior accident investigator with decades of experience, said he knew of only one or two incidents when the memory cartridges had been compromised.
The black box equipment will be sent to manufacturer Honeywell in North America to determine what data can be extracted."