Air France plane crash parts are found, no black boxes
PARIS – Undersea robots have a "big part" of the Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009, but have not found his "black box" flight recorder is located, said French officials on Monday.
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Victims' families cautiously welcomed the surprise announcement that search teams have pieces of the plane, after almost two years of futile efforts to determine what caused it is to crash. Investigators have said that without the recorders, the cause may never be found.
All 228 people aboard the plane were killed when the flight on the way from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, threw into the sea first June 2009, after running into an intense thunderstorm height.
The French air accident investigation agency BEA said on Sunday evening that a team has pieces from an airplane … in the past 24 hours. "Aboard the expedition ship Alucia
BEA spokeswoman Martine Del Bono said on Monday that the black boxes were removed. "I hope to announce that (discovery) in the coming weeks," she told The Associated Press said.
The debris was found in a remarkable depth of 3800-4000 meters, said, Del Bono.
"In the past, we found the tail, scattered pieces, but this time we have a large part of the plane, found surrounded by rubble," said Minister French Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, aid the environment and transport policy issues, on France Inter radio . "One part remained fairly intact … in one piece."
Jean-Baptiste Audosset, who lost his partner in the crash, said the announcement provides "finally a little hope." He said, however, that families care for an earlier announcement that parts of the aircraft had turned out that they remain on untrue.
The families have many questions about what was found exactly where and what it might mean.
Three previous efforts proved futile search in attempts to shed light on the cause of the crash. An international research team with the fourth implementation effort to find remains of the plane – and in particular its flight recorder.
Finding the cause took on new significance last month when a French judge filed preliminary manslaughter charges against Air France and the plane manufacturer Airbus. Experts say that without the flight data and voice recorders, authorities likely to decide not what is to blame.
Air France and Airbus are financing the estimated $ 12,500,000 cost of the new search. About 28 million U.S. dollars has already been investigated on the three previous the jet's wreckage has been spent.
The team this weekend, the discovery was part of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, or WHOI, Cape Cod, Massachusetts led.
The search is focused on an area of 3,900 square miles (10,000 km ²), several hundred miles off the northeast coast of Brazil.
Searchers are up to three autonomous underwater search vehicles, each of which remain under water for up to 20 hours when using sonar to a mountainous area like the Mid-Ocean Ridge to scan known. Researchers download the data and a vehicle with a high resolution camera to check out an area where scientists see evidence of debris.
Air France welcomed the announcement that a portion of the aircraft has been found.
said, "This discovery is good news … yes, there is hope, that information is displayed on the causes of the accident, so far unexplained," the airline said in a statement.
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