If the US Navy can recover a nuclear bomb that was accidently dropped into the ocean way back in the 1960's, i think modern submersibles can recover the FDR/CVR's as long as they survived the impact. Water depth is reported to be around 4,700m which is within the reach of modern submersibles.
I'm sure Airbus, along with Air France will do all they can to recover as much information as possible to work out why the A330 was lost.
It certainly is looking like a catastrophic structural failure due to turbulance or massive electrical failure leading to loss of control.
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