The French air accident investigation authority, known by its French acronym BEA, is now handling the analysis of the so-called black box flight recorders from the Ethiopian Airlines jet that crashed earlier this week. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)PARIS (AP) — France doesn’t see an unusually large number of aviation disasters, but its plane crash investigators are world famous. Ethiopian authorities wanted European investigators to handle the analysis because of its complexity, according to BEA spokesman Sebastien Barthe. The BEA notably helps with investigations in countries without the resources or equipment to analyze the flight recorders, often called the black boxes. 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 12:45 UTC