Air France Flight 447 Wreckage Found

Air France Flight 447 crashed in the Atlantic ocean on June 1, 2009 killing all 228 people on board. Read more details of the story here. While pieces of plane debris have been found, the majority of the plane had been missing. However, today’s report confirmed that the search team on board the vessel Alucia located major assemblies of the Air France Airbus A330.

Investigators say they still haven’t found the plane’s black box flight recorders.

“This discovery, coming only days after the Air France- and Airbus-funded fourth sea search was launched, is good news indeed since it gives hope that information on the causes of the accident, so far unresolved, will be found,” AF said in statement. “Answers will perhaps therefore be found to the questions that, since 1 June 2009, families of the victims, our airline and the aviation community worldwide have asked as to how this tragic accident occurred.”

More problems:

The recovery and identification of bodies from the sunken wreckage of Air France flight 447 may bring much-needed closure for loved ones of the dead, but the operation would be far from straightforward.

The immediate issue is how to raise large parts of the aircraft fuselage, which have been found to contain bodies, from the seafloor more than 3,800m beneath the surface.

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