Tour Hebdo - site officiel - Transport : AF 447 : les éléments de l'avion rapatriés mi-juin
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AF 447: The elements of the aircraft returned mid-June
Posted on 04/11/2011 4:45:00 p.m. Secretary of State for Transport, and Jean-Paul Troadec, Director, Office of Investigations and Analysis (BEA) for the safety of civil aviation, today received the Information Committee Families of victims of Flight 447 from Rio to Paris, with representatives of the Gendarmerie Air Transport and the Institute of Criminal Research Gendarmerie Nationale.
This meeting served to discuss with families the BEA and the organizing of the raising of the wreck, a week after its location. The ship Ile de Sein French group Alcatel Lucent, responsible for the wreckage recovery, from Cape Verde on April 21 without a representative of families on board, "so as not to affect the judicial process."
The return of the ship is scheduled for mid-June. Priority will be given to the technical investigation and, if found, the recovery of flight recorders. He also indicated that attempts to families will be conducted to trace the bodies of victims to meet the obligations of the judicial inquiry. If it is possible to go back, they will be identified in France and returned to their families faster.
"The timing of the operator today can be readjusted if the recovery operations require more time," said Thierry Mariani. At this meeting, the Secretary of State presented Philippe Vinogradoff new ambassador in charge of relations with families, appointed by the government to be the sole contact between the families of victims and the various authorities of each country.