Info recovered from 447's data recorders

PARIS, May 16 (UPI) -- Accident investigators say they recovered data from the flight recorders on an Air France jetliner that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in June 2009.

The crash of Flight 447 killed all 228 people aboard.

An international team of government and industry experts retrieved the data from the plane's "black boxes" during the weekend and hope it explains why the Airbus A330 jetliner dropped out of the sky, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

The French Bureau d'Enquetes et d'Analyses is leading the investigation.

The bureau said it recovered "all the data" from the jet's black boxes and "all of this data will now be subjected to detailed, in-depth analysis."

The jetliner was the first major commercial airliner to disappear in mid-flight in decades, the Journal said.

Investigators said the flight-data recorder was in excellent condition, despite spending nearly two years on the ocean floor at a depth of 12,000 feet. The jet's cockpit voice recorder was slightly damaged but information from it was successfully retrieved as well, the report said.

It will take several weeks, at minimum, before the data analysis is complete, officials said.

The plane disappeared while flying through heavy storms en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris June 1, 2009. Automated messages sent by onboard computers shortly before the crash indicated problems with the jet's external air speed indicators.