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Originally Posted by G-CPTN
How unusual is it that the recorder wasn't found 'as installed', but was detached, not only from its location, but also split from its 'controller'?
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Tbh..after 2 years and at the depth it was on the seabed, its close to a miracle that they found the plane wreckage, let alone the business end of the FDR. Think very small needle in very large haystack.
FDR's have been known to split like this before, IIRC the midair collision tween the Legacy & GOL B737 over Brazil in 2006, the FDR from the B737 split and took a short time longer to find than the 'body' of the box.
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