The tweet said the agency is analyzing flight data from the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder, known as the black back boxes.īut it authenticated an audio recording posted online of communication between the flight’s pilot and the control tower. The BEA did not give CNN further details as to what caused the incident or why it qualified as “serious,” adding that it had to wait for the end of the investigation. The incident happened on Tuesday, April 5, according to a BEA tweet that reported “instability of flight controls on final, go-around, hard controls, flight path oscillations.”
In an audio recording of air traffic control that French officials say is of the incident, a pilot says, “the airplane was just kind of out of control.” French aviation safety investigators have opened a probe after an Air France Boeing 777 airplane approaching Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport was involved in a “serious incident,” according to BEA, the French bureau that investigates air crashes and aviation safety.
