“There is no emergency, everyone is dead”, asserts AFP a policeman at a few kilometers Vernet places where A320 Germanwings German airline crashed. However, it is not less than 10 helicopters, military aircraft 1, 350 firefighters reinforcement of local resources and more than 300 soldiers were dispatched to the area of the accident.
An HQ Operations has been installed on a large field near Seyne, where helicopters take off. According to AFP, at the bottom of this vast space, two large hangars home gliders. Amidst the fire trucks, caterpillars (small, lightweight vehicles with caterpillars) have been deployed, presumably to be hélitreuillées on where the plane crashed.
The head of state François Hollande said in the afternoon that the operations will take several hours because of the very great difficulty of access to the area.
In fact, the plane crashed in the valley Blanche, between Digne and Barcelonnette (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) located at 1,500 meters above sea level, under the head of Estrop which rises to 3,000 meters in the massive Three Dioceses. According to a reporter on site, the aircraft would have crashed near the river Galèbre between the cities of Seyne and Vernet
The gendarmerie has published a map showing the closure of the area.
Area and steep snowy
The scope is isolated, far from any village. It is a snowy area, from 2000 m on the southern slopes and 1,700 m on the northern slopes on which crashed the device, inaccessible by vehicles, but can be flown by helicopters. The Mayor of Barcelonnette, interviewed by “Obs” explains that there are three valleys that leave from the summit: toward Barcelonnette, towards Digne and the last to the Val d’ALOSS. He said the wreckage of the A320 is the Digne aside.
Traffic to the site difficult
“The World” reports that members of the high mountain police squad have noted, our helicopter the crash, debris was scattered over more than 2 km², making already-and-already complicated the task of facing the elements. The newspaper said the plane crashed 7 kilometers from the primary and gendarmes have been able to reach the site on foot.
The priority for General David Galtier is “to identify really crash area and still find debris and possibly the victims. “.
The gendarmerie lieutenant colonel Seyne emphasizes the newspaper “La Provence” that “helicopters can not land,” and the hoisting of the technique will be used. According to the mayor of Vernet that met France Inter, the terrain is the main obstacle because it is a “gullied area, steep, narrow at its bottom.”
Y movement is difficult even if the aid is airlifted. “
It is also to preserve the scene of the disaster for investigators. The general Galtier and shows there are gendarmes who will remain on the field in the evening until the next day.
“The first problem is the identification of bodies,” said the prosecutor of Marseilles Brice Robin, which opened an investigation for manslaughter, noting that 10 forensic experts had visited the site.
SD (with agencies)
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