Black boxes recovered from Air France plane

Both black box recorders have been recovered from Air France flight, which skidded off a runway and burst into flames on Tuesday at Toronto Pearson airport, an official said on Wednesday.

" I can confirm that the black boxes have been recovered," said Steve Shaw, spokesman for the Greater Toronto Airports Authority, which manages Canada's busiest airport, at a news conference.

The black boxes were to be sent to Ottawa and any communication between the pilots and the control tower or other recorded information was to be downloaded at a lab in Ottawa.

A team of between 10 and 15 investigators met all night as they mapped out a plan for examining every detail of how the A340 managed to overshoot a runway by 200 meters Tuesday afternoon.

The passenger jet, which landed in the midst of a violent thunderstorm, was torn into three pieces after the crash. Fortunately all 309 on aboard survived the most serious accident at Pearson since 1978, only 43 people were slightly injured.

Source: Xinhua