Airbus A320 crashed in Southern France

[BigFrank]

@aterpster

"He's doing his job. The CVR is probably in Paris by now, being carefully disassembled, properly set up in a specially equipped sound proof room, then preferably having a full CVR team present to listen to the recorder.

That's the way it's done at the NTSB. I resume the French follow a very similar protocol."

As one who is not professional in the airline world I find this confusing.

The implication of what you write is that the initial process of listening to which the Head of BEA (as I understand the gentleman's rôle) alluded in his press conference took place in less than optimum conditions and away from the main base.

Yet I understood, perhaps wrongly, that the device was delivered to the main base at 9:45 am and that the press conference took place there some 7+ hours later.

Edit:
Based on a doubt raised by a recent post on here which describes M Jouty as a BEA spokesperson, I found press reports on-line from last year which confirm my understanding that he is in fact the Head of BEA.