Exactly two years after the Air France flight 447 Rio to Paris plunged into the Atlantic, killing all 228 people on board in one of the accidents more mysterious in the history of aviation, the families of the victims commemorate their loved ones Wednesday after details of the last minutes of the doomed plane only began to emerge last week.
Tuesday, French police said rescuers had recovered 75 bodies in the course of the past week, bringing the total number of bodies recovered to 127.
For almost two years, the families of the victims had little idea about the cause - the accident until the Airbus A330 flight recorder have been recovered in shallow waters between the Brazil and the West in April.
Recovery efforts were hampered by the depth of water, and it took abyss aquatic robots to locate the recorders.
Plane plummeted in three years and a half minutes
Friday, the French researchers published an initial report based on the findings of the recorders, which revealed that the aircraft had plummeted 38 000 feet in just three minutes and 30 seconds.
The families of the victims welcomed the news of the release of the initial report with relief. "It has been two years that we waited, two years that we think of the accident, every hour, every minute of every day." We need to know what happened, and now, finally, we do, "Gwenola Rogers of the Association of solidarity and a flight 447 aid told journalists shortly after the publication of the initial report."
The report shows that the aircraft autopilot mode has been cut off about two hours after it took off from airport of Rio de Janeiro Galeao May 31 at 19: 30 local time.
According to the initial report, which is based on the information sparked flight recorder, the crew noticed that indicators of speed of the aircraft were defective, while the Airbus A330 flew at altitude of cruise along the way in Paris. And then suddenly blocked then plunged into the ocean just four minutes later.
Passengers were probably not aware of what was going on
Speaking on FRANCE 24 Wednesday, Pierre Eysette, a former pilot of Air France who worked in the Department of accident prevention company is two years, said that it is very likely that passengers on Board had no idea of the coming disaster.
"I think that the passengers could understand, may be because most of them were sleeping at the time and a descent of three or four minutes, so I don't think that the passengers were aware of what was going on", he said.
The transcript of the conversation in the cockpit showed the pilots of the difficulty to regain control of the aircraft.
The text describes the pilots noting that speed sensors did not. The aircraft then reached 38 000 feet when "the stall warning system was triggered and the aircraft stalled," according to the report of.
The aircraft then plunged to the surface of the sea at a speed of almost 11 000 feet per minute. The aircraft engines were apparently operational and responding to commands from the crew.
In a statement released last week, Air France said: "it appears... that the initial problem was the fact that speed probes that led to the disconnection of the autopilot and the loss of protection systems associated with cockpit." The crew demonstrated a totally professional attitude and was committed to the performance of their task at the end and Air France wishes to pay tribute to their. ?
The final report on the crash of flight 447 Air France is planned later this year.
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