Wednesday, May 4, 2011

France to retrieve the body of the Airbus

cockpit voice recorder was found earlier this week by investigators of the crash of the French Ministry of justice ordered a recovery team to retrieve remains most of the passengers and crew members of the Air France Airbus A330 from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean.

The aircraft was flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, when it plunged into the sea.


Flight AF 447 was carrying 228 people. Fifty-one bodies were found in 2009.


The team hopes now that a submarine robot will retrieve the other remains of the France.


Search and rescue workers located the place of the accident on the seabed, off the coast of the Brazil, allowing them to recover the voice and flight data recorders.


Now, French officials have informed the relatives of the death of their latest efforts.


The liaison officer appointed to assist the families explained that they would try initially save a body from the wreckage to determine whether it was possible to retrieve the other.


However, there is concern that the remains are already in a fragile state after nearly two years on the seabed.


Close accident victims are divided on the issue of moving the body at all, with some arguing for repatriation and others saying the crash should be the final resting place.

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