Air France crash 'black boxes located in Atlantic'

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Source: bbc

The flight recorders from an Air France plane which crashed in the Atlantic last year have been located to within a 5km zone, a French official has said.

But Gen Christian Baptiste told AFP that retrieving the boxes from the ocean floor might be impossible.

All 228 people on board the flight from Rio to Paris died in the crash.

The cause remains unknown. The plane's airspeed probes had given false readings, but officials believe other factors must also have contributed.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8664127.stm

[TransitJohn]

1. Hope they can retrieve them

to analyze and use to design/refine safety systems on those aircraft.

[groundloop]

2. Somewhat misleading headline - search area has been narrowed down

Still, it's progress. They need to be retrieved.

[HereSince1628]

3. Is "located" a consequence of eliminating other search areas?

Process of elimination doesn't seem quite the same as having some positive evidence usually associated with the word 'located.'
But, maybe there is something lost in translation from English to, er, um...English.