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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unrecovered_flight_recorders

Flight data recorders (FDRs) and cockpit voice recorders (CVRs) in commercial aircraft continuously record information and can provide key evidence in determining the causes of an aircraft loss. The greatest depth from which a flight recorder has been recovered is 16,000 feet (4,900 m) the CVR of South African Airways Flight 295.

Recovered recorders are not always able to definitively identify, however, the causes of an accident. Recorders successfully recovered can be too damaged to be read, or may have missing data caused by power loss, as with TWA Flight 800, American Airlines Flight 77, and Swissair Flight 111. In the bombing of TWA Flight 841 on 8 September 1974, neither the FDR nor CVR were recovered from the Ionian Sea, despite the locations being narrowed down through the use of the attached Underwater locator beacons (known as "pingers").

Date of Crash	Flight No.	Airline	Plane Type	Presumed Location	Notes
8/16/1965	389	United Airlines	Boeing 727-22	Lake Michigan, off Chicago, Illinois	Resting in 76 m (249 ft) of water; FDR recording media never found[1]
5/2/1970	980	ALM	Douglas DC-9-33CF	Caribbean Sea	Resting in 5,000 ft (1,500 m) of water; neither recorder found[2]
6/29/1972	290	North Central Airlines	Convair CV-580	Lake Winnebago, near Appleton, Wisconsin	An estimated 50% to 60% of the wreckage was recovered from the shallow, muddy water. The FDR was recovered in good condition, but the CVR was never found.
7/22/1973	816	Pan American World Airways	Boeing 707-321B	Pacific Ocean, off Papeete, Tahiti	Resting in 700 m (2,300 ft) of water; neither recorder found[3]
9/30/1975	240	Malév	Tupolev Tu-154	Near the Lebanese shoreline	Resting in between 600 and 1,000 m (2,000 and 3,300 ft) of water[4]
1/30/1979	cargo	Varig aircraft PP-VLU	Boeing 707-323C	in the Pacific Ocean, around 200 kilometers East Northeast from Tokyo, Japan	The aircraft debris were never located and thus, neither the CVR and FDR was found and the cause of the crash was never determined.[5]
1/1/1985	980	Eastern Air Lines	Boeing 727-225	25 nmi (46 km) from La Paz at the 19,600 ft (5,970 m) level of Andean peak Mt. Illimani.	Due to the extreme high altitude and inaccessibility of the accident location, the FDR and CVR were not recovered at the time.[6] A team of 3 men claimed in 2016 to have recovered the remains of the CVR and parts of the FDR.[7] Due to Bolivia remaining the country officially in charge of the investigation, the NTSB was unable to claim the components until January 4, 2017, after Bolivia officially requested assistance from the NTSB in December of 2016.[8] On 7 February 2017, the NTSB released a statement, according to which what had been found was not the cockpit flight recorder, but rather the rack that had fixed it on to the plane - and [a] promising spool of tape turned out to be 'an 18-minute recording of the Trial by Treehouse episode of the television series I Spy, dubbed in Spanish. [9][10]
11/28/1987	295	South African Airways	Boeing 747-244B Combi	Indian Ocean, near Mauritius	CVR located at 4,900 m (16,100 ft); FDR not found.
11/29/1987	858	Korean Air	Boeing 707-3B5C	Andaman Sea	Neither flight recorder was ever found.[11]
7/3/1988	655	Iran Air	Airbus 300	Persian Gulf	Neither flight recorder was ever found.[12]
3/10/1989	1363	Air Ontario	Fokker F28-1000	Dryden, Ontario	CVR and FDR destroyed by post-crash fire,
10/4/1992	1862	El Al Israel Airlines	Boeing 747-258F	Groeneveen and Klein-Kruitberg flats in the Bijlmermeer, Amsterdam Zuidoost	One Black Box was found. The tape was broken in 4 pieces. The last 2:45 minutes were unreadable.[13]
9/11/2001	11	American Airlines	Boeing 767-223ER	North World Trade Center, New York City	[14]
9/11/2001	175	United Airlines	Boeing 767-222	South World Trade Center, New York City	[14]
10/4/2001	1812	Siberia Airlines	Tupolev Tu-154	Black Sea	Neither flight recorder found. Main fuselage of the aircraft, believed to contain the recorder, was believed to be at depth of 1,000 metres - too deep for divers to retrieve.[15]
5/25/2003	N844AA	N/A	Boeing 727	Luanda, Angola	Plane missing along with pilot Ben Charles Padilla and John Mikel Mutantu
10/14/2004	1602	MK Airlines	Boeing 747-244(SF)	Halifax, Nova Scotia	FDR recovered; CVR mutilated in post crash fire
10/22/2005	210	Bellview Airlines	Boeing 737-200	Lisa Village, Ogun, Nigeria	FDR was never found
7/28/2011	991	Asiana Airlines	Boeing 747-400F	Korea Strait	Neither flight recorder was ever found.
12/9/2012	N345MC	Private	Learjet 25	Iturbide, Mexico	CVR and FDR destroyed upon high speed impact
3/8/2014	370	Malaysia Airlines	Boeing 777-2H6ER	South Indian Ocean	Plane and all 239 passengers and crew missing CVR missing; FDR missing Search for debris and recorders suspended 2017-01-17

References

• NTSB Aircraft Accident Report, United Airlines N7036U in Lake Michigan
  
  
• NTSB Aircraft Accident Report, Aircraft Accident Report: Overseas National Airways, Inc. Douglas DC-9 N935F, Operating as Antillaanse Luchtvaart
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• "Varig accident description". Aviation Safety Network. 1979-01-30. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
  
  
• Investigation of Controlled Flight into Terrain. Descriptions of Flight Paths for Selected Controlled Flight into Terrain (CFIT) Aircraft Accidents, 1985-1997. by Robert O. Phillips. Federal Aviation Administration, U. S. Department Of Transportation, Project Memorandum DOT-TSC-FA9D1-99-01, March 1999.
  
  
• Two Massachusetts men claim they have found long-lost 'black boxes' in Bolivia - The Boston Globe. BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2016-06-06.
  
  
• "After Surprising Discovery, Somerville Men Turn Over Black Box From 1985 Plane Crash". boston.cbslocal.com. Retrieved 2017-01-07.
  
  
• Bates, Claire (2017-02-22). "The housemates who found a lost plane wreck". BBC News. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
  
  
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