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Originally Posted by jyl View Post
Suppose the remains of the plane are found and retrieved from the ocean floor. What then can be done to find out what happened?

My understanding is the flight data/voice recorder (black box) only records the last 2 hour in a loop. So it won't show what happened when the plane left its normal course.
Only the voice recorder has the two hour loop. As posted, it may not have the voices at the start of the incident, but any sounds thereafter would be there. The data recorder can record all vital data for thirty-six hours. There is more than one " black box" in the plane.

One discussion to come from this incident is to have a much longer record time for the voice recorder.
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