Search for Air France Flight 447 Black Boxes to Be Discontinued

Brazil ended its operation to recover bodies and wreckage from Flight AF447, which was flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. Photo by BGNES

French ships equipped with US listening devices are ending their hunt for the black boxes of Air France plane that crashed in the Atlantic on June 1.

This was announced Friday by officials, the BBC reported.

They failed to pick up signals the boxes' "pingers" were meant to emit for 30 days after the Air France jet crashed with the loss of all 228 lives.

Experts believe the cause of the crash may never be known unless the two flight recorders are recovered.

However, there is still a chance that French submarines may discover the boxes.

Brazil ended its operation to recover bodies and wreckage from Flight AF447, which was flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, towards the end of last month, after finding the remains of 51 people.

French investigators believe the plane, which disappeared in a storm, broke up on contact with water, not in the air.

They say the plane's speed sensors appear to have been a factor in the crash but not its cause.

 

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