Ah, but this be the second black box missing memory card, or would it be a third black box.

It be hard to tell anymore, as at first they say they found the first black box with the cabin audio recording, then they say they found the black box for the flight data but the memory recorder card was missing.

Flight Data Box From Germanwings 4U 9525 Recovered but Memory Card Is Missing

So, would it be that the flight data recording memory card that was missing, now be found. Or, that a second black box of the flight data recording found?

Flight data recorder taken from casing

MSM Confirms Flight Data Recorder “Black Box” Taken from Casing

Today the MSM has also confirmed this story via the Guardian with very little fanfare, almost making light of the fact that the black box was apparently opened and the memory disks removed.

“Rescuers are still, however, to locate the plane’s second black box — its flight data recorder — six days after the Barcelona to Düsseldorf flight crashed into a rocky ravine at 435 miles (700km) per hour.”

“The black box, which is actually orange and weighs around 10kg, was originally in a protective casing, but only the empty casing has been found.” Guardian

Memory card missing from flight data recorder

Someone took the memory card from the FDR. No wonder they want to try and convict the co-pilot so quickly in the court of public opinion and be done with the story as soon as possible.
So, I stand corrected in my earlier piece.
The FDR is not being reported as having been damaged beyond repair (hard to do with a solid state memory chip)…
… but instead… it appears… someone simply took it… and that aspect of the story has simply disappeared down the memory hole along with the chip itself.

Those guys, no matter what, are going to find useable data........ from it, the missing memory card, or I mean, the second black box flight data recorder. How many memory cards in a flight data recorder?

Strange that the memory card refused to do a self-induced 'suicide', and returned from the 'memory hole' to the second black box. Playing the 'pixie' tricks.

“The above is a diagram of a modern Digital Flight Recorder. It does not have a memory card like you would find in your camera or smart device, for the simple reason such cards could be dislodged in a crash. As you can see, there are multiple memory chips attached directly to circuit cards in a stack inside an armored casing. The memory system makes multiple copies of all data to preserve vital information even if one of two chips are destroyed by the impact. If the memory is no longer inside the recovered Digital Flight Recorder it is because someone intentionally removed it.” WRH

Image: BEA, the French Civil Aviation Safety Investigation Authority

Image: BEA, the French Civil Aviation Safety Investigation Authority
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Robert Smith O'Ghobhain
Sarnia, Ontario
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