1.   The flight data recorder measures altitude, speed and acceleration of the aircraft at the time of an accident.

2.   The reports said the independent investigation team was still looking for the flight data recorder.

3.   Also Monday, the board released an edited transcript of the cockpit voice recording and some information from the flight data recorder.

4.   Also, if there was a bomb explosion on board, the data recorder is likely to show evidence of a pressure spike.

5.   An Argentine inventor has won a patent for a data recorder designed to be installed in cars to capture information about traffic accidents.

6.   An early break came Monday when the flight data recorder was recovered from the wreckage.

7.   And, he noted, the flight data recorder captures someone in the cockpit cutting engine power.

8.   Another program, known as Flight Operational Quality Assurance, uses information taken from flight data recorders on routine flights to track potential problems.

9.   Another question was whether an electric power failure, which investigators suspect occurred on the plane about six minutes before impact, had disabled the data recorder.