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1.12.2 Identification of the items recovered
The identification of the debris shows that it consists mainly of light items belonging to the cabin fittings and holds (bulkheads, galley, ceiling or floor panels, seats, overhead baggage bins, cabin and hold lining).
Approximately thirty pieces are external parts of the plane (vertical stabiliser, pieces of the radome, the engine cowl, the under belly fairing, the flap actuator fairing, the trimmable horizontal stabiliser and the secondary control surfaces). The identified debris thus comes from all the areas of the plane.
An ELT distress beacon with manual tripping was also recovered. This had not been actuated. Its switch was found in the “OFF” position.
1.12.3 Visual inspection
A first visual inspection brought to light the following.
The tail fin was damaged during its recovery and transport but the photographs available made it possible to identify the damage that was not the result of the accident. The middle and rear fasteners with the related fragments of the fuselage hoop frames were present in the fin base. The distortions of the frames showed that they broke during a forward motion
with a slight twisting component towards the left.
Part of the radome was found, representing approximately a fifth of its circumference along its upper part.
The galley, identified as G2, located at the level of door 2 on the right-hand side, was not very distorted. Baskets and racks were compressed in the lower part of both galley carts.
The distortions observed in the metal vertical reinforcements of a toilet door showed evidence of great compressive forces
Fragments of the walls of the flight crew rest module were crumpled and those of the ceiling were deformed downwards. The floor was curved under the effect of a strong upward pressure from below. The connecting brackets between the floor and the walls were bent backwards.
1.12.4 Summary of visual examination
Observations of the tail fin and on the parts from the passenger (galley, toilet door, crew rest module) showed that the airplane had likely struck the surface of the water in a straight line, with a high rate vertical acceleration.
1.13 Medical and Pathological Information
Sailors from the Frigate Ventôse recovered about thirty bodies. A visual examination of the bodies showed that they were clothed and relatively well preserved. All of them were handed over to the Brazilian Navy to be transferred to the Recife morgue. At this stage of the investigation, the BEA has not yet had access to the autopsy data