31 years later, we found the flight recorders

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Operation Thonapa

5 min readJun 3, 2016

The writing on the cable casing confirmed on day three that we’d been finding pieces of the recorders for the previous three days. None of the other pieces of metal had writing on the outside as expected.

We started out this trip with the goal of finding the black box — the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder — of Eastern Airlines Flight 980. We also had a goal to live a life of adventure, to challenge ourselves physically and mentally, and to come back with a story.

We found what we believe to be the flight recorders.

31 years later, we found the flight recorders

Written by Dan Futrell