AF447 CVR located and recovered.

The Cockpit Voice Recorder has been both located on the sea floor and successfully recovered from it by a robotic vehicle.

The device is under BEA seal and the data, if any, will be available to the BEA in about two weeks, though its release will surely be several months at the earliest.

The CVR will provide us with information regarding whether the lack of WX related course deviations was truly due to crew fatigue. There are many who believe this is not a WX related event and who interpret the ACARS data as showing two pilots present and alert in the cockpit. There seems little to indicate a malfunctioning or non-functioning WX radar aboard the aircraft and it would seem that if any such event took place the crew would not have engaged in continued flight into the ITCZ but would have returned and landed. It is likely that had there been any such non-functioning onboard radar system the crew would have at the very least issued a turbulence warning to passengers and crew. This would have resulted in an activation of the seat belt sign and the securing of the galley. Yet damage inspection and autopsy reports indicate that the galley was not secured and a high number of passengers did not have their seat belts fastened.