It took two years to find Air France 447 in the Atlantic this way. It is the second time in little more than a year that sea search operations have been forced to rely on decades-old black-box technology after an AirAsia plane crashed into the Java Sea. "PRETTY SCANDALOUS""The battery situation is pretty scandalous," Jean-Paul Troadec, who headed the French government BEA air accident investigative agency during much of the Air France probe, told Reuters. The signals did not indicate what caused the smoke, and aviation experts have not ruled out deliberate sabotage or a technical fault. French investigators say the Egyptian jet sent warnings indicating that smoke was detected on board.

Source: Standard Digital May 24, 2016 03:07 UTC