Director of the Investigation and Analys

Director of the Investigation and Analysis Bureau (BEA) Jean-Paul Troadec, head of the French office investigating the accident of the Air France airliner crash off Brazil nearly a year ago, talks to journalists during a press conference at the BEA headquarters in le Bourget on May 10, 2010. The French navy has closed in on the black boxes of an Air France jet that crashed in the Atlantic nearly a year ago, officials said on May 6, 2010, raising hope that light will be shed on the disaster that left 228 dead. French officials cautioned however that this breakthrough did not mean that the black box flight recorders will be successfully retrieved from the ocean floor. The breakthrough in pinpointing the zone came after new computer software was used to decode data collected by deep-sea submarines during their search in June and July last year, said the defence ministry. AFP PHOTO ERIC PIERMONT (Photo credit should read ERIC PIERMONT/AFP via Getty Images)