China will use domestically-made “black boxes” flight data recorders in its airplanes.

中国飞机将采用国产飞行资料记录仪 “黑匣子”。

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But the priority for the investigators is still to find the plane's flight data recorders.

但是调查人员的首要工作仍然是寻找飞机上的黑匣子。

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But without clear-cut data from the plane's cockpit-voice or flight-data recorders, it may be hard for investigators to conclusively back up pilot assertions or precisely determine what happened.

但在没有来自舱音或飞行数据记录器的明确资料的情况下，调查人员或许很难鲜明地支持飞行员的说法，或者是准确界定当时发生的情况。达美航空和全国运输安全委员会的发言人都拒绝置评。

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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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French military spokesman Christophe Prazuck said the priority was looking for wreckage from the plane, before turning the search to flight data recorders.

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