[TexasCajun]

How would one go about extracting a Black Box from an aircraft in water over 10,000 ft?

[M Kehoe]

How would one go about extracting a Black Box from an aircraft in water over 10,000 ft?

Very carefully?

With extreme difficulty?

Lots of answers to that one.

8^)

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[Logical me]

How would one go about extracting a Black Box from an aircraft in water over 10,000 ft?

You must be assuming that that is the only black box in the world. Black boxes do not carry a signal identifying the aircraft they are on. Just "ping" to signal where I am and is very limited as to distance.

[Tijeras_Slim]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AUV_ABYSS

A similar autonomous submersible retrieved the French Flight 447 black boxes.