Accident investigators are piecing through the debris and one of the flight recorders has been retrieved.
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Nepalese officials later said that the flight recorders had been recovered from the wreckage.
Both flight recorders were recovered from the crash site and were due to be examined by investigators.
They collected data from commercial aircraft flight recorders, which record the location, duration and intensity of turbulence.
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The plane did not have, nor was required to have, flight recorders.
Mr Cope said flight data recorders showed his flight path was different from the route he normally took home from Honister mine.
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The probe is also analyzing data from flight data recorders on the aircraft, the NTSB said in a statement on its website.
French military spokesman Christophe Prazuck said the priority was looking for wreckage from the plane, before turning the search to flight data recorders.
The flight data recorders have not been recovered, and the plane's crew did not send any messages indicating problems before the plane disappeared.
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Investigators have found the flight data recorders from the plane.
Authorities said the cockpit and flight data recorders were recovered in excellent condition and information from both recorders was consistent with previous reports of the plane hitting a flock of birds before losing power in both engines.
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The investigation will include scrutiny of the flight and voice data recorders, it said.
But he said that was likely to be extended, given that the recorders from Flight 447 had survived intact for so long.
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