The video worked for me (inside Spain).
From the TV press conference:
-4 experts from the US aviation authorities plus other representatives from the plane as well as the engines manufacturer were allowed on the site thursday morning, joining forces with the national aviation accident comission of Spain (total of 9 experts).
-The site had already been investigated by the spanish comissioners, as early as 1.5h after the crash, who found the second black box (the first was handed over by police that took part on early rescue efforts).
-Significant avionics parts of importance for the investigation have been found. Damaged, but in good enough state to provide evidences.
-Auxiliary power unit also retreived.
-No skid or crash marks found INSIDE the airstrip. Please, note, that this are just "facts stated". It doesn't mean that the airplane didn't touch the strip at all (or that it did). It only means that most likely it never touched the strip while trying to brake or "crashing down hard", and, likely, but not necessarily, ever at all since it left the ground. So, again, no marks, skid or otherwise, of the plane on the actual runaway. He does state that "the first point of impact (implying in absolute terms) of the plane with the ground was the back of the tail.
-It is mentioned that some (of the 4) channels of the AUDIO (not data) recorder that are in better shape than others. The data recorder information has been apparently succesfully reported, but it has been sent to the manufacturer and it's being verified.
-It was stated that the ground level radar recorded the take-off attempt, so possibly some speed and trayectory information can be extracted from that.
-He is confident enough technical data (both black boxes, significant parts in good enough state to be studied, video, radar and other visual information, survivors and witnesses reports, all pertinent weather information, ground control recordings, etc, etc).
-The pilot's conversation recording has not yet been transcribed. They are not currently able to clearly hear everything in there, and further analisys and proccessing is necessary and currently underway in laboratories.
-When directly asked about the reversers, he just acknowledge that both reversers as well as both engines have been recovered in reasonably good condition. But he refused to comment on their state, saying that whatever state they were apparent may or may not be enough to reach any conclusions at this point.
-He reiterated that no marks, parts or debris has been found on the actual landing strip itself. The first one is in the flat terrain inmediately to the side of it.
Last edited by justme69; 26th Aug 2008 at 22:03.