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Old 22nd Dec 2008, 22:49
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According French local Perpignan TV news (Fr3 ) a few days ago : the CVR/FDR were both sent to Honeywell in Seattle as the BEA were unable to get info from them. The QAR however is repported to be OK and talking . ( a photo was even shown ).
6 bodies retreived so far , none identified yet, they are waiting for DNAs from siblings to make positive ID. Divers still on the site to recover instrumentation and last body.

In addition there are local rumours ( but only rumours ) that someone present during the briefing prior the flight heard the crew talk about the " manual back up" which led to speculations. But it seems very unlikely that experienced 320 crews ( as they were) did this on final APP below 10.000ft . So only wild speculations so far.
Hopefully Honeywell will be able to get something out of the Recorders.
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