black box or permanently buried deep sea Air France China: unable to assess loss

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Author: User
Keywords Air France general manager of China underwater positioning System
Every reporter Sun Jiasha from Shanghai This is the most serious accident in the history of Air France in 75, with the French military spokesman of the 3rd in a media interview confirmed that, after a legal investigation, the Brazilian Air Force on June 2 found that the wreckage of the aircraft is indeed the wreckage of the missing AF447 airliner,  The plane, carrying 228 people, was confirmed to have crashed into the Atlantic Ocean.  An Air France China company yesterday said in an interview with our correspondent that it was not yet possible to assess the impact of the incident on Air France's brand and prospects. The black box is still not found "although we still need to wait to retrieve some debris for technical analysis to finalize, but all doubts have become unnecessary. Said Pilates 3rd. Earlier, Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim said the wreckage was "no doubt" that it belonged to Air France's AF447 flight. The wreckage of the Brazilian Air Force in 650 kilometres northeast of the Brazilian Fernando Noronha island included mottled aircraft seats, white debris, an orange buoy and some traces of aviation kerosene, but no signs of life were found.  The Brazilian Navy spokesman said that the water temperature in the wrecked sea area of about 30 degrees Celsius, conducive to human survival, currently can not eliminate the possibility of survivors.  France, Brazil and other countries composed of search and rescue teams are still in search and rescue, Brazilian defense Minister Jobim said, bad weather conditions increased the difficulty of search and rescue work, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said in the Congress, search and rescue teams need to carry out search and rescue work in the 7000 meters deep sea. While the wreckage of the aircraft was salvaged, the search for the black box was still in progress. "Don't find the black box, you can not really know the cause of the plane crash, now all the reasons for the speculation can not be confirmed." "An airline person to our correspondent said," The black box is equipped with underwater positioning system, can work more than 30 days, the maximum underwater working depth of about 20000 feet per second, the frequency of a pulse of 37.5khz. "There are also experts who say black box in the underwater signal range of about 1 square kilometers, and because of the large area of the wreck, the search for a black box is difficult, in addition, some of the sea water depth reached 7000 meters, and deep-sea robot can operate the depth of 6000 meters, once the black box fell in 7000 meters deep sea  , deep-sea robots will not work.  Paul Louis Arslanian, head of the French civil aviation Security Investigation and Analysis Bureau, said there is no way to rule out the possibility of retrieving the black box. The cause of the crash is still unknown before the black box was found, speculation about the cause of the plane crash continues. Air France accident investigators said there was no sign of any mechanical failure before the plane took off. The Brazilian Air Force said the site was found to be on the right side of the AF447 final signal, indicating that the airliner had tried to turn. Air France said it had received dozens of technical messages before the crash, indicating that multiple devices had failed during the accident. French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said that the aircraft before the accident all system failure, but for the moment do not know why。 Some media reported that an Qantas Airbus a330-300 aircraft had suffered turbulence, the navigation system suddenly error, sending wrong data, causing the plane crash, so many people were injured. Tauwenge, a spokesman for the Airbus Chinese company, told reporters yesterday that there was no way to assess whether there were any links between the two events. The above airline Personage tells a reporter: "from the domestic airlines fly A330, this is a pretty good model."  "It may be that the crew relies too much on an automated electronic navigation system to cause trouble," the person said.  Air France: Unable to assess the impact of the crash of the Air France airliner has a total of 9 Chinese tourists, in addition to 6 Benxi Steel employees, a Huawei staff, a person to invest in Brazil, another person, the other yesterday identified as the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Thermal Physics, deputy researcher Xiaoxiang. The reporter learned from the institute that Xiaoxiang was invited to the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to conduct cooperative research for two weeks. After the project was completed, Xiaoxiang was scheduled to take the Air France AF447 flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris for a transit home. The Institute of Engineering Thermal Physics said that they were very cautious in confirming the matter and that a contingency team had been set up by the director personally.  The missing associate researcher Xiaoxiang 35 years old, a Jiangxi man.  At present, the general manager of Air France China has visited Xiaoxiang home, Air France China PR manager Zhou Yinghui told reporters that Air France has been with the disappearance of the 9 Chinese passengers of the family contact, will be arranged as appropriate to the law. Reporters yesterday at the same time from a number of ticket sales website learned that there has not been a large-scale passenger change, or return Air France ticket, the fare is basically flat. Air France currently has a presence in Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and other cities, including 24 flights a week between Shanghai and Paris. "It is not yet possible to assess the impact of the incident on China's prospects for airline ticket sales and consumer confidence, and we have not yet thought so far to boost consumer confidence and enhance the brand image," he said. "Zhou Yinghui said. The airline people believe that the impact of the incident on the image of the Air France will be much greater than economic pressure.
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