Black box found in medditeranean coast
Located the black box of the Airbus in the rugged French coast
The three-black boxes of the Airbus A320 plane of Air New Zealand, damaged on Thursday in the French Mediterranean coast with seven crew on board when conducting a test flight, were located, reported today the Mayor of Perpignan (southwestern France) .
The French Navy divers responsible for the work of today succeeded in conducting a search immersion, despite the adverse weather conditions, the sources said.
“The priority is to recover the bodies, take DNA to identify victims and return them to their families,” said the deputy prosecutor of Perpignan, Dominique Alzeari.
Two bodies were recovered yesterday, while another five are still missing.
For reasons not yet determined, the plane fell to about eight kilometers in front of the coast of Saint-Cyprien, near Perpignan, in the midst of bad weather conditions, with heavy rain and winds.
The French lost their radar signal at around 13.45 in Brasilia, and shortly afterwards the wreckage of the apparatus were sighted by a civilian ship, warned that the rescue services.
The plane, a unit of twin engine with a capacity for 150 passengers, was delivered to New Zealand company in July 2005 and accumulated 7 thousand hours of flight, said Airbus, a subsidiary of European aerospace consortium EADS.