Underway at the site where the plane went down in a remote part of the french alps tuesday morning, killing all 150 people on board. There was no distress call before that crash and no communication with air Traffic Control in a minute before the plane went down, leaving many questions still on just what happens. One of the black boxes, the cockpit voice recorder, has been found damaged, but apparently still usable. Here is more from the French Interior minister. French interior minister this blackbox was found by investigators on tuesday afternoon and was immediately sent for analysis. The black box is damaged and it will have to be reconstructed in order to give us information on what happened in this tragedy. Genie thats the French Interior minister. The area surrounding the crash site is located in a very rugged and remote part of the outs reachable only by foot. More now on the difficulty facing the search teams there. Reporter pieces of the plane are strewn on the steep slopes in
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