Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Brasil/Francia.- Located in "good condition" the second black box of the Air France plane that hit the Atlantic

PARIS, 3 May. The second black box of Air France, which fell almost two years ago the Atlantic off the Brazilian coast, was recovered Tuesday by the rescue team led by the Office of Investigation and Aviation Safety Analysis (BEA, in its French acronym) after being located on Sunday. The vessel Remora 6000 that participates in the fifth targeted search to recover the bodies and wreckage have recovered the box containing the records and flight parameters, in "good condition", confirmed the BEA said in a statement.

The discovery comes after two years of searching for the wreckage in an area of 10,000 square kilometers under the sea. France began operating last week to rescue the bodies and wreckage that fell into the sea while covering the route Rio de Janeiro-Paris which killed 228 people, 32 nationalities, including 61 French and 58 Brazilians .

The vessel Remora 6000 that participated in the rescue device of the bodies and wreckage of the A330-200 of Air France has recovered the box, which is in "good condition", confirmed the BEA said in a statement. As agreed, the Navy will escort the remains of the boxes will be transferred by air at BEA headquarters in Le Bourget.

If you are currently on board 69, a Navy officer who joined the Brazilian on Friday (April 29). Last week during the first dive operation located on part of one of the two cash registers while the data module that continent appeared damaged. The members of the ship, about 69 people, who commanded the operation have been organized into two working groups to manage the search, both under the direction of the BEA.

Specifically, the first machine will do the analysis of photographs taken in the previous phase, focusing on footage collected after the sinking of the device. The second group will study the procedures related to the recovery of 'black boxes' of vessel and aircraft equipment and parts thereof.

FIFTH search campaigns. The fifth team search campaign is headed by the director of technical research of the Office of Research and Analysis for Aviation Security (BEA, its acronym in French), who has moved to the area with three other experts. They are also collaborating in the research of a British authority, a researcher at the Center for Research and Prevention of Aeronautical Accidents Brazil (Cenipa), experts from Air France and three members of Airbus, and a psychologist.

These experts will be accompanied by four officers of the French judicial police and three experts from the Institute of Criminal Research of the National Gendarmerie (Ircgn) who have moved in a vessel specially equipped with a probe. Also, has joined the operating officer of the Brazilian navy.

According to BEA, the recovery of bodies and personal belongings of the victims is "responsibility" of the judiciary.

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