ChristiaanJ
Can you really believe that the BEA doesn't have the necessary equipment to read the recorders of an A320, whoever being the hardware manufacturer (and Honeywell is certainly not the most exotic supplier of such devices...) ?! If it's really the case they can very well close shop and subcontract all their investigations to the NTSB....
Something fairly unusual happened here. I guess it will be reported eventually but in the meantime I'm still bemused.