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Old 5th Jun 2016, 23:41
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takata
 
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The track and speed of the Burullus doesnt give too much hope at this point.
"doesn't give too much hope" for what?

a) The crash site was already located within a small circle of less than 2 km following onboard ELT signal picked up by multiple MEOSAR satellites (GPS + Galileo) at crash time.

b) H/V Laplace, once arrived on the spot, quickly picked up an ULB signal ; she is still working the area since a week.

c) deep sea recovery equipment is on its way onboard R/V John Lethbridge ; She is actually off the Southern coast of Sicilia, heading to Alexandria where she supposedly will arrive on Thursday (June 9th, but it's not clear yet if she is really sailing to Alexandria instead of the crash site).

Hopefully, by the end of this week, we'll get news of retrival operation starting, but it does look to me quite good so far.

Yet no other signal has been detected from the seabed, possibly because only one ULB was still working after the crash. Nonetheless, it should not be extremely difficult to find out and recover rapidly some wreckage, considering what those ships, crew and equipment can do in addition to a limited area to explore.

Last edited by takata; 6th Jun 2016 at 00:07. Reason: spelling
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