During the tail strike of the A345 in Melbourne in March this year, the flight data recorder was dislodged from its bracket.
There is a picture of the bracket on page 20 of the ATSB report.
http://www.atsb.gov.au/publications/...012_Prelim.pdf
Does Airbus designed FDRs to seperate from the fuselage during a crash?
If so, is this based on a rational that the location beacon works better when the recorder is not surrounded by metal?
Mickjoebill