The black boxes open the door to solve the mystery of Rio-Paris flight
The discovery of the plane's two black boxes covering the line between Rio de Janeiro and Paris, which crashed into the Atlantic on June 1, 2009 opens the door to resolving one of the most mysterious air accidents, said today responsible for the investigation.
6000 Remora submarine robot retrieved this morning the second black box of the ill-fated Air France Airbus, which recorded the conversations and noises that occur in the cabin, a valuable information that will be completed with data from the other box, found the past Sunday and containing various flight parameters.
For the director of the Office of Research and Analysis (BEA), Jean-Paul Troadec in charge of the investigation, this finding is "a great step to understanding the accident," but qualified that you have to wait and see if they have retained While their data.
Researchers fear that the oxide and the pressure after almost two years to almost 4,000 meters have been damaged recording instruments and their information can not be used.
However, they noted, the first analysis are encouraging because they show the instruments look good.
In ten days the two boxes, sealed in ballot boxes now filled with water to preserve its state, came to Paris for analysis.
Your data is key to complete the puzzle of the investigation so far stalled for lack of elements to determine the causes that prompted the airline's Airbus A330 Air France to Paris crashed minutes after takeoff from the airport Rio de Janeiro.
None of the 216 passengers or 12 members of the crew saved his life.
So far, the investigation had pointed to a defect in the velocity measurement probes as the cause of the accident, but investigators claimed that these conclusions were not definitive because missing items.
The box found last night contains recordings of everything that happened in the cabin, which had been lost so far because when the plane crashed, had already left the Brazilian radar control and had not yet entered in the Africans.
The researchers will know what the pilots said, jumped to know if any alarm and any other sound that was in the cab within two hours before the disaster.
These elements are supplemented by those contained in the other box, found on Sunday, which holds parameters such as speed, altitude, engine performance, automatic pilot and other flight controls, in total of 1,300 data for the previous 25 hours.
These will be coupled with other results from the pieces recovered so far from the plane and others that try to rescue the resting place of Airbus.
In the coming days, robotic submarines refloated a number of computers that contain more data.
Also recovered the engines to try to determine the state where they were before you hit the water and the cabin, although it will be a more complicated task, since it is surrounded by other wreckage.
With all these elements, researchers hope to shed light where previously only had a darkness that preserved the mystery.
It matters little that this had to have disbursed 35 million euros, paid for by Airbus and Air France, to find the wreckage, a record in France.
