Infighting among entities involved in the Ethiopian Airlines air disaster probe has hampered analysis of the plane’s damaged black boxes by France’s BEA air accident investigation agency, Fox News has learned. Arguments broke out Thursday as the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder arrived at the BEA near Paris for analysis, according to a source who spoke to American investigators there. The source reported being told that the American investigators left the BEA Thursday night after 12 hours of "doing nothing." “Positioning is important and that’s been disrupted.”The report of friction comes as the BEA said Friday that its analysis of the flight recorders had begun. French officials have said it was unclear whether information could be retrieved due to the damaged condition of the recorders.

Source: Ethiopian News March 15, 2019 15:56 UTC