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French Authorities
Release Photos Of Air By Steve Hall |
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April 5, 2011 - On Sunday French authorities reported
during phase 4 of a search and recovery operation, the
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution robotic submarines
had located the wreckage of what was believed to be Air
France Flight 447, at the bottom of the
Air France Flight 447 was a scheduled commercial flight
that had departed on May 31, 2009 at 19:03 local time
from
Enroute air traffic control received automated messages
from Flight 447 indicating the aircraft was having
mechanical problems. Shortly after those messages ATC
lost radio contact with Flight 447 and it was believed
the aircraft cashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the
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investigation into the disappearance of Flight 447 had been
severely hampered by the lack of any eyewitness accounts and
radar tracks, as well as the airplane's black boxes, which have
not been recovered. On Monday the French government?s aviation department, Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) which is responsible for investigating aviation accidents and making safety recommendations released photos of the crash site of Flight 447. The debris field included the fuselage of the Airbus A330-20, passenger?s seatbelted in their seats, engines, landing gear, etc. The wreckage area was described as "quite compact", on a relatively flat ocean floor which was about 660 feet and located about 13,000 feet below sea level which suggest that the aircraft most likely did not exploded in flight and crashed into the water in one piece. The discovery of Flight 447 has raised hopes that the CVR and FDR (the "black boxes") will be located.
Minister
Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet of the French Ecology and
Transportation stated the bodies and wreckage would be brought
to the surface and taken to
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