Originally Posted by
Gwyn_ap_Nudd
According to the BBC, AAIB teams have "moved into location at the site to recover the aircraft"
How likely is that the AAIB chartered vessel will attempt a recovery? How feasible is it? And why do it? Recovery only sensible if it helps explain what happened - and it is highly unlikely to provide any additional information about the causes of this accident, which sadly seem depressingly obvious - again.
If the families want the bodies recovered, is that not their prerogative, and up to them to organise? What are the normal rules for this, at sea? It is very sad, but encouraging continued 'hope' is bad for all concerned, in the long run.
( A strange exercise this - an American registered aircraft, on a flight from France with a British pilot who held both an EASA and an American private licence. If it crashed in international waters, presumably the main reason that the CAA/AAIB is involved is that the exercise originated from the UK and it had, sadly, one UK citizen plus one recently arrived new UK to-be-resident aboard.)