Local emergency workers found the plane's voice and data recorders.

The data recorder itself had come within a hair's breadth of being destroyed.

But until the recovery of the data recorder today, virtually no other information had been available.

He pulled out a compact personal data recorder and made a note.

There were no tools or data recorders, and each computer terminal was dark.

Nearly 50 bodies have been found, but the plane's "black box" data recorder still has not.

The data recorder was also suddenly cut off, when the plane was at 31,000 feet.

It might be the reason for the data recorder's corruption.

After 8 hours, the technician removes the data recorder and looks at the pictures.

Unlike several hours earlier, this was a private moment, and one without excessive data recorders.