Slightly Less Dirty Translation of Le Monde Article
The link was kindly posted on page 110 here. It was updated at 1150LT (Paris), five hours after the first version went online.
The bottomline is somebody heard a noise but no confirmation it was from any blackbox.
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French naval vessels captured a very weak signal. It was thought it might be from the black boxes. The Nautile was sent down on June 22 to attempt a recovery, expected to be difficult because of their location in the aircraft.
A BEA spokesman said the blackboxes had not been precisely located.
Ifremer Captain Philippe Guillemet of the "Pourquoi Pas" search ship said: "We're still looking...We get acoustic signals but none have been validated. Unfortunately."
Asked: "You haven't located the blackboxes at all?", Guillemet replied: "Absolutely."
The article then notes the blackboxes can be heard only up to 2 km away and that the seabottom is rough terrain at 5,000m depth.
It adds the blackboxes will ping for about eight more days; the next paragraph moves on to the identification of 11 bodies.
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Last edited by ArthurBorges; 23rd Jun 2009 at 15:52.
Reason: Mistakes!