French air crash investigators have revealed a severely damaged black box from the doomed Ethiopian Airlines crash. As analysis of the air tragedy gets underway in Paris, the French air accident investigation authority, known by its French acronym BEA, shared an image of the mangled flight data recorder. The BEA notably helps with investigations in countries without the resources or equipment to analyse the flight recorders, often called the black boxes. BEA investigators are also often called upon when an Airbus plane has a problem anywhere in the world, because the aviation manufacturer is based in France. The BEA also studied the flight recorders retrieved from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean two years after the 2009 crash of Rio-Paris Air France Flight 447.

Source: Ethiopian News March 14, 2019 16:43 UTC