Disaster in the Alps: looking for the black boxes. Very difficult action – Interia

The teams of experts are looking for the black boxes line Germanwings plane that crashed yesterday in the French Alps. So far, found one of them, but I do not know if we can read it. Airbus A320 recorder records will be crucial to explain the cause of yesterday’s tragedy.

Action exploration is very difficult

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The first black box found on the rubble yesterday. It is a voice recorder in the cockpit. It is not known yet if we can read the data stored therein. – It is destroyed, but it is possible to play it, so as to read a number of details about the crash – said in a French radio station RTL Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve.

As reports of the Special Envoy of the French Barcelonnette Polish Radio Wojciech Cegielski, rescuers are now looking for the next recorders, which are stored all the data on the course of the flight. Such a record is more valuable than the voice recorder, because it contains much more information. Rescuers searching for a possible survivors of the crash, although it is almost certain that in the case of all the dead passengers and crew, a total of 150 people.

Action exploration difficult weather. High in the mountains there is a danger of avalanches descent. The plane crashed in a ravine, which at the moment can not be reached on foot, only helicopters.

In place of the tragedy of the family have come today killed and French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. It is the citizens of these countries constitute the majority of victims of the crash of flight 9525th

Very difficult rescue operation

climber and mountaineer from Nowy Sacz Rooster Valentine believes that difficult terrain makes rescue in the Alps can take a very long time.

– This pristine area, where either are very steep cliffs or inaccessible gorges, you can not run forward blindly, just need to be careful at every step – emphasized in an interview with Radio’s Information Agency.

Mountaineer adds that the operation also makes it difficult descent avalanche risk.

Airbus A320 Germanwings German airline crashed near the village Barcelonette. On board the machine was 150 people – 144 passengers and 6 crew members. The most common cause of the tragedy repeated hypothesis are technical problems.