Data Recorder of Lost Air France Jet Unlikely to be Located
French aviation officials have said that they may never find the flight data recorders of an Air France jet that went missing over the Atlantic. The data recorders can provide the clearest information about what happened to the flight.
Terming the circumstances as difficult, the officials promised a thorough investigation though.
Needless to add, flight AF 447 was heading from Rio to Paris with 228 people on board on Monday when it was lost over the ocean.
Navy vessels are converging on an area some 650km (400 miles) off Brazil’s coast where the debris of the plane has been spotted.
According to Brazilian and French officials, the wreckage is undoubtedly from the missing plane.
In the meanwhile, the French civil aviation officials, at a news conference in Paris, said that they hoped that there would be an initial report by the end of June.
The officials, headed by Paul-Louis Arslanian, chief of the French civil aviation ministry’s bureau of investigation, said that no problem was reported with the flight before its take-off.
Arslanian, ruling out depending on any speculation, said that it was “essential we check and verify everything”.
He said: “This catastrophe – which is the worst that our country has witnessed in terms of aviation, took place in a very difficult region… so the investigation will not be easy… but we are not giving up.”
Arslanian said the exact time of the accident was not known, nor whether the chief pilot was at the controls
