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The tail fin of the Airbus A330 that crashed in the Atlantic is unloaded this week in Recife, Brazil.
A spokesman for Brazilian medical examiners carrying out autopsies on the 50 bodies that have been recovered told The Associated Press they had multiple fractures of legs, hips and arms. The official spoke on condition he not be named due to department rules.
A former U.S. National Transportation Safety Board official said those injuries could mean the plane broke apart in air. Frank Ciacco said bodies would be severely fragmented if the jetliner hit the water intact.
Speaking at a news conference near Paris, French air accident investigation agency head Paul-Louis Arslanian said the debris is from all areas of the plane. He didn't provide any further details about the recovered wreckage or say how much of the entire plane has been found.
Arslanian said the search for the aircraft's voice and data recorders is intensifying.
"We are at the first days of the research under water, research which is focused on the time being on the recorders and more precisely the beacon, the acoustic beacon which is fitted to the recorders," he said.
Investigators are using manned and unmanned submarines to search the crash site, which is spread over more than 230 kilometres, located about 640 kilometres northeast of the Fernando de Noronha islands.
The ocean floor where the debris has been spotted drops as low as 7,000 metres below sea level.
Arslanian said it's still too early to draw any conclusions on why the jetliner went down.
"It is premature for the time being to say what happened and it would be irrelevant and misleading to elaborate on partial and from time to time erroneous facts," he said.
Drawing on his lengthy experience as an air crash expert, Arslanian said crash investigators are working in "one of the worst contexts for an aviation investigation."
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Jun 17, 2009 at 01:33 PM Very Sad... Says:
May HKBH have rachamim on those unfortunate souls. BDE.
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Jun 17, 2009 at 06:52 PM Anonymous Says:
“ May HKBH have rachamim on those unfortunate souls. BDE. ”
Now will they be mattir the aguna?
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Jun 17, 2009 at 10:20 PM me Says:
The debris field is spread out over 230 kilometers and they're wondering if it broke apart in the air? How exactly would debris spread out 230 kilometers if the plane hit the water intact?
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Jun 18, 2009 at 03:36 AM Milhouse Says:
“ Now will they be mattir the aguna? ”
Unless they found the body, or there is absolute proof that he was on board, how can they? How does this discovery change anything?
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Jun 18, 2009 at 04:10 PM LivingInIsrael Says:
Question is, who blew up the plane? Sources also said there were no warnings from the pilots and no signals of trouble, so they were caught off guard by either a bomb or missle....only time before they figure it out. Then again, they probably know already and dont want to "alarm the public".