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Old 3rd Jan 2010, 02:54
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Howard Hughes
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HH - An ATSB source tells me it's in water at less than 500 mtrs and they (ATSB) have already located the wreckage and attached a line to it to facilitate later retrieval of the FDR and CVR.
Even in 500M of water you need some serious recovery equipment and I don't know that the ATSB has the funding to permit such a recovery, especially considering there were no fatalities.

I doubt very much the FDR/CVR will ever be recovered, after 6 plus weeks in the water the data may already be irretrievable!
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