The flight recorders from Air France Flight 447 will be transported to the Bureau d’Enquetes et d’Analyses (BEA) by plane on May 12, the agency announced May 10. The transport will take place after the
La Capricieuse, a French Navy patrol boat, reaches the port of Cayenne with the flight recorders. The boat is scheduled to reach the port May 11.
The transport comes in wake of finding both the FDR which was located on May 1 and the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) located May 3, helping investigators determine the events that caused the June 1, 2009, crash of the
Airbus A330 that killed 228 people. Flight 447 was en route from Rio de Janerio, Brazil to Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport when it disappeared from radar and plunged into the Atlantic Ocean.
La Capricieuse reached the search vessel
Ile de Sein on May 7. Recovery of airplane parts, including one engine and computers from the avionics bay, has continued over the past few days, according to a May 9 BEA briefing.
Jean-Paul Troadec, BEA director, Alain Bouillard, Investigator-In-Charge, Christophe Menez, head of the engineering department, and Philippe Vinogradoff, special representative to the AF Flight 447 families of the victims will be present at a May 12 press briefing. Held on the BEA's premises at Le Bourget, the briefing will discuss FDR findings.