French official: Finding black boxes top priority of crash investigation

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PARIS, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Finding the flight data and cabin voice recorders of the ill-fated Air France jetliner is the top priority of the ongoing investigation, French Junior Transport Minister Dominique Bussereau said Sunday.

Brazilian investigators have found more debris, the official said. If they proved to belong to the crashed airliner, it will help further investigations, he said.

But Bussereau said finding these two recorders, more commonly known as black boxes of planes, remained an urgent task, as investigators have only about three weeks to locate the black boxes.

Commenting on reports about problems detected with speed monitors on the Airbus A330, Bussereau said that such a single failure, even if confirmed, can hardly explain the cause of the crash.

Paul Louis Arslanian (R), head of France's air accident investigation agency, and French investigator Alain Boillard, attend a news conference in the Bourget near Paris June 3, 2009.  REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes