Complications with the investigation into the destruction of Air France
flight AF447 are set to dominate discussions on flight-data retrieval,
aircraft communications and tracking at a high-level ICAO safety conference
this month.
The gathering in Montreal comes a few weeks after France's Bureau d'Enquetes
et d'Analyses published a technical analysis of several potential options
to avoid loss of crucial flight-recorder information in the event of an
aircraft accident at sea.
European representat