The French accident investigators and technicians from aircraft manufacturer Airbus is involved in the search for the downed Air Asia plane’s black boxes. At the same time requires US experts to participate in accident investigation.
( Updated) After that the tail of the crashed passenger plane QZ8501 yesterday found in the Java Sea raises hopes of being able to locate the plane’s black boxes, where the recording equipment available. The contents of the drawers can thus provide answers to what caused the crash.
According to Reuters, they shall be placed behind a door on the right side of the tail. There is a risk, however, that the rear portion broken apart, and that only part of it may have been located.
The search boxes is in collaboration with accident investigators from the BEA, the French Accident Investigation Commission, with the support of technicians from Airbus, the Franco-German manufacturer of the plane, which uses hydrophones to locate the “ping” which boxes to send out when they end up in the water.
The plane is an Airbus 320-200. The model is frequently used around the world and manufacturing takes place including in Toulouse, France.
jet engines made by CFM however, more international, a company half-owned by the US giant General Electric and Snecma, a subsidiary of the French engine manufacturer Safran.
While the French experts are involved assisting the Indonesian Commission of Inquiry NTSC, who leads the technical studies, reported US experts be surprised that they have not been invited to participate in the investigation.
The engines on board was also certified or accredited by US authorities.
Rick Kennedy, a representative of General Electric, said last Wednesday to:
We expect fully to be included in the investigation team.
Indonesiska authorities stated, however, like to wait a possible decision to bring in additional investigators until the aircraft wreckage salvaged from the seabed.
Samtidigt has signaled that it may eventually come to include the American engine experts.
According to data plane was equipped to transmit so-called ACARS messages that can send details about the flight. ACARS stands for Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System.
Such messages are used both to investigate the cause of accident, and to locate the Air France plane – an Airbus larger model (A330 – 200), in relation to Air Asia now crashed plane – which crashed in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil in 2005.
But according to data shall airline Air Asia have had no subscriptions to the system.
Divers have during the day been looking for the drawers in the area where the tail was found. But underwater currents and poor visibility hampers sökarbetet, and divers have mostly only found parts of the interior and luggage department, according to a report from Air Asia.
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