An important and perilous search operation resumes Wednesday, March 25 to try to find in the mountains the remains of 150 victims of the crash of an Airbus A320 of the German airline Germanwings that crashed Tuesday in the southern Alps for unexplained reasons
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The research ahead complicated for over 300 policemen and 380 firefighters mobilized given the dispersal of aircraft debris on nearly 4 acres on a mountainside in an area very difficult to access, between Digne and Barcelonnette (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence).
Among the innumerable debris, no large fuselage section was seen. “Only the landing gear could be identified” , said on Tuesday an investigator from the police. “The greatest body parts we identified are not the biggest” a briefcase, added one of his colleagues.
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In addition to hoist the remains of the victims, the teams will also try to locate the second black box of device. The first, found Tuesday to be analyzed by the Investigation and Analysis Bureau (BEA) in charge of technical investigations.
With the contents of the flight recorders, investigators will attempt to clarify the many gray areas of the accident. We do not know yet the reason for the breakdown in communication between the crew and air traffic control, who took the initiative to declare the aircraft in distress, or the circumstances of the fall of the device that lasted eight long minutes. “At this stage we believe it is an accident and everything else would fall speculation” , said Heike Birlenbach, Vice President of Lufthansa, in a press conference in Barcelona .
President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is expected early Wednesday afternoon at the scene of the disaster.
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