This just in. The French BEA issued a press release earlier today, go here for this press release saying that investigators have successfully downloaded data from the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder into a secure computer. According to the BEA press release, this operation was filmed. In addition, observers from the U.S., Great Britain, Brazil, an officer from the French judicial police and a French court expert observed the operation. Data analysis will be ongoing for a few weeks, and the BEA expects to release an interim report later this summer.
You might also want to check out this 5/16/11 New York Times article. The NY Times reports on the data recovery as well as additional details of the ongoing investigation by French agencies.
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