Yemenia Flight 626 from Paris to Moroni sank into the ocean on June 30, killing 152 people, with one survivor. The black boxes were found Friday.
Just because the black boxes were found does not mean the route to discovery is on track. Apparently there was so much damage to the black boxes, there is going to be trouble recovering the data. That’s not new. In fact, usually when there is trouble reading the black boxes, investigators call in the company that made the boxes, and they are usually able to mine the data in spite of damage.
The BEA, the French aviation authority is handling the investigation. Many of those aboard were French and/or French Comoran.
Did they–are they–sending the boxes to the US? They’d have a better chance of recovery if they do.
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The families of Mike and Anne Harris have settled their lawsuit against Air France. Michael was 60, from Greenville, South Carolina, a graduate of Clemson University, an expert in geology and oil field operations with Devon Energy in Rio and West Africa Group. (Devon Energy is based in Oklahoma.) Ann was 54, from Lafayette. She suffered from Fibromyalgia, was Fibromyalgia Association of Houston volunteer and a physical therapist. They had been married sixteen years, by the time they booked the fatal flight; and the trip was business and pleasure, because they were going to a training seminar in Paris, and for vacation. They left behind them friends in Lafayette, Houston and Brazil where they had lived.
Mike and Anne Harris were the only Americans on the flight. According to their lawyer, the case has settled.
Crash History
The 4 year old Air France Airbus A330-200 en route from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Paris when it went missing over the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009. Two hundred sixteen passengers (including seven children and one baby, 82 women and 126 men) and 12 crew were aboard. There were two Americans and 60 French citizens were on the plane. Italy said at least three passengers were Italian.The pilot had 11,000 hours of flying experience, and 1,700 hours flying this aircraft.
The last known radio contact was an automatic message made at 0133 GMT when the plane was near the Island of Fernando de Noronha; since then, the airplane has made no radio communication. Fifteen minutes after flying through a storm and strong turbulence, there was an electrical short-circuit. Search planes left Fernando de Noronha Island looking for signs of the plane concentrating in an area 230 miles off the northeast Brazil coast. The flight left Rio at 7 p.m. and was expected in Paris on Monday at 11:15 a.m. The wreckage broke apart, the pieces scattered at sea, and the black boxes were not recovered until May 2011.
It is an interesting time to settle the case–right when the world is on the cusp of discovery of what caused the crash.
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What: Native Air Aerospatiale AS.350BA Ecureuil (Eurocopter AS 350) training helicopter Where: trying to land at San Carlos’s Cutter airport, San Carlos Indian reservation, 60 miles west of Phoenix When: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov 4, 2009 Who: 2 on board Why: The medical evacuation helicopter (configured for training) crashed on landing.
Both occupants of the helicopter were hospitalized with injuries.
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A helicopter crashed outside the King Power Stadium in Leicester, England, on October 27th.
The incident happened when the helicopter was carrying five people, including the owner of Leicester City F.C. Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, two members of his staff, a passenger, and the pilot.
All occupants of the aircraft were killed in the crash.
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Brussels Airlines flight SN-255 had to return and make an emergency landing in Brussels, Belgium, on April 17th.
Aerolineas Argentinas Airlines flight AR-1301 had to reject take off from John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York, on February 9th.