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New search for Air France black boxes ends in failure
May 13, 2010, 15:08 GMT
Paris - The search for the flight recorders of an Air France Airbus that crashed into the Atlantic nearly one year ago has suffered another setback, the French Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) said Thursday.
The examination of a new search zone, based on a re-analysis of data retrieved last year, has yielded no results, the BEA said in a press statement.
'After ensuring optimal coverage of the entire exploration zone, the BEA has decided to start searching again in the initial search zone located to the north-west of the last known airplane position,' the agency said.
On June 1, 2009, the Airbus A330 crashed into the Atlantic some 1,500 kilometres north-east of the Brazilian port of Recife while on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, killing 228 people. Scattered pieces of the plane and 50 bodies were later recovered.
Last week, the government had announced that a re-analysis, using updated software, of data retrieved shortly after the crash by the nuclear submarine Emeraude had enabled investigators to narrow the location of the black boxes to within five kilometres.
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