It might still give us some hints. In the other thread they say that the black box might have stopped recording because of a power failure - and planes manufact

It might still give us some hints. In the other thread they say that the black box might have stopped recording because of a power failure - and planes manufactured before 2010 (this plane was from 2009) didn't need an UPS. The hint that we get from this news is that the plane (or better, the blackbox) was missing electricity for 4 minutes prior to the crash.