Originally Posted by
notapilot15
...Even after 14 days if SAR teams are not sure where it went down, how long it is going to take to recover FDR/CVR. There is near zero possibility of recovering human remains.
OTOH, in the case of Air France Flight 447, they recovered 104 bodies from the wreckage lying at 3980 meters depth some 700 days after the flight was lost. (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Fr...h_and_recovery )