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Mangled black box could hold clues to Germanwings crash

Digne-les-Baines, France - French investigators cracked open the mangled black box of a German jetliner on Wednesday and sealed off the rugged Alpine crash site where 150 people died when their plane slammed into a mountain.


March 25, 2015  By The Associated Press

The dented, twisted and scarred cockpit voice recorder was being mined by investigators for clues into what sent the Germanwings Airbus 320 into a mid-flight dive Tuesday after pilots lost radio contact over the southern French Alps during a routine flight from Barcelona to Duesseldorf. Germany’s top security official said Wednesday there was no evidence of foul play. | READ MORE

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