Mon, Jul 06, 2009
Plans Being Developed For Recovery
A submarine sent to look for the Cockpit Voice and Data
Recorders from the Yemenia Airlines Airbus A310 which crashed off
the coast of Comoros Tuesday has detected the signals from the
black boxes. Officials are now planning how to recover them.
The plane went down Tuesday after missing an approach to Moroni
airport in the Yemeni capital. 152 were killed, but a young woman,
now reported to be a 12 year old girl, survived. The Associated
Press reports she was found holding on to some debris in the
water.
The weather was bad at the time of the crash, with heavy
thunderstorms and winds gusting up to 70 miles per hour.
In a one-line
statement, the French accident investigation authority BEA said it
did not know when the aircraft's CVR and CDR would be recovered,
but Yemeni officials said they should have them "within days"
according to the AP. The chief of Yemen's Civil Aviation Authority,
Hamed Ahmad Faraj, said special equipment was being brought from
Djibouti by the French to help in the search.
Meanwhile, thousands gathered over the weekend in France to
protest the condition of Yemenia Airlines equipment flying between
Marseilles and Moroni. Protesters said Yemenia uses newer, safer
planes on the European legs of the flight, but switches to
airplanes with serious safety issues for the final segments.
Yemenia has suspended operations between Marseilles and Moroni for
an "indefinite period" following the protests.
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