It's not the present subject, but d747 wrote at # 2081
If the recorders are to be found in another search effort what are the chances of getting usable data out of them? Is the data stored of a disc of some sort or in RAM type memory?
Nobody knows, but sometimes it's possible to recover unreadable data (click on
27/11/2008 Perpignan at the right corner of the page, and look at page 19).