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Old 9th Nov 2009, 22:13
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ChristiaanJ
 
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Originally Posted by vovachan
Can they even be sure the boxes can survive the extreme water pressures at those depths? Something in the order of several tons per sq inch trying to crush it
Good question.
I'm not sure what type of recording system was used in that A330's FDR.
But if it was any kind of solid-state memory recording, it might crush the boxes, but not the memory chips.

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