— Investigators have located and recovered the memory unit of the flight data recorder of a 2009 Air France flight — a remarkable deep-sea discovery they hope will explain why the aircraft went down in a remote area of the mid-Atlantic, killing all 228 people on board.
France’s air accident investigation agency BEA said a search by a submarine probing some 3,900 meters below the ocean’s surface located and recovered the unit Sunday morning. The unit is now aboard the ship Ile de Sein, the statement said.
