Kingfisher
2007-08-13 14:33:21 UTC
Search teams have located the cockpit flight recorder of a passenger
aircraft that crashed last week killing at least 14 people, but authorities
said they would need specialist deep-water equipment to recover it.
The conversation voice recorder on board the Twin Otter could tell
investigators why the aircraft with 19 passengers and a pilot came down on
Thursday shortly after taking off from the island of Moorea on a short hop
to the local capital Papeete.
But local authorities in Papeete said none of their vessels was stable
enough to provide a platform for the underwater robot being sent from Paris
to recover the recorder, discovered at a depth of around 430 metres.
France may ask nearby countries to lend it a vessel to conduct the recovery
operation, the authorities said in a statement late on Sunday.
Fourteen bodies have been recovered but six people remain missing and
authorities hold out no hope of any survivors. Senior official Anne Bocquet
said teams would continue to search for wreckage and bodies for a further
two weeks and had asked local fishermen to report objects found at sea.
Two police air crash investigators have been sent to the zone to work with
three civilian experts in situ since Saturday.
Moorea is one of around 118 islands scattered across an area the size of
Europe in the South Pacific that make up France's overseas territory of
French Polynesia.
aircraft that crashed last week killing at least 14 people, but authorities
said they would need specialist deep-water equipment to recover it.
The conversation voice recorder on board the Twin Otter could tell
investigators why the aircraft with 19 passengers and a pilot came down on
Thursday shortly after taking off from the island of Moorea on a short hop
to the local capital Papeete.
But local authorities in Papeete said none of their vessels was stable
enough to provide a platform for the underwater robot being sent from Paris
to recover the recorder, discovered at a depth of around 430 metres.
France may ask nearby countries to lend it a vessel to conduct the recovery
operation, the authorities said in a statement late on Sunday.
Fourteen bodies have been recovered but six people remain missing and
authorities hold out no hope of any survivors. Senior official Anne Bocquet
said teams would continue to search for wreckage and bodies for a further
two weeks and had asked local fishermen to report objects found at sea.
Two police air crash investigators have been sent to the zone to work with
three civilian experts in situ since Saturday.
Moorea is one of around 118 islands scattered across an area the size of
Europe in the South Pacific that make up France's overseas territory of
French Polynesia.
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