Press release to day from BEA :
Protected boxes (CVR and DFDR) have resisted and seem intact, but it was not possible to extract any data. Additional work will be becessary, without being possible today to predict their result.
So they where structurally intact (which is what one would expect given the circumstances of this crash) but BEA can't read them... Hmmm.... Could it be that there is nothing to read on them, i.e. that they where not recording ? This is really intriguing as I am pretty sure that the BEA is well equipped to be able to retrieve data from an A320 recorder. The fact that they could not read anything from both is really puzzling.
