Investigators seeking the missing Malaysia Airlines plane face a “colossal task” that is “far, far harder” than the two-year search for an Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic, the man who led the French inquiry has warned.
Alain Bouillard’s comments came as experts described the hazardous stretch of deep waters that may contain debris belonging to flight MH370 as “one of the most hostile environments in the world”.
Mr Bouillard was in charge of the hunt for AF447 that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009 between Rio de Janeiro and Paris with 228 people on board. It only took six days for French and Brazilian naval forces to find the first bodies and the Airbus A330 tailpiece. But that was only the beginning of a long search to recover the main wreck and above all the flight recorders.
Mr Bouillard, 63, worked for France’s air accident investigation bureau, or BEA, a world authority on probing air crashes and also led the investigation into the Concorde crash outside Paris in 2000.
Three BEA members are helping the Malaysian authorities in their search for flight MH370 that disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing plane on March 8 with 239 people on board.
20/03/14 Telegraph
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Alain Bouillard’s comments came as experts described the hazardous stretch of deep waters that may contain debris belonging to flight MH370 as “one of the most hostile environments in the world”.
Mr Bouillard was in charge of the hunt for AF447 that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009 between Rio de Janeiro and Paris with 228 people on board. It only took six days for French and Brazilian naval forces to find the first bodies and the Airbus A330 tailpiece. But that was only the beginning of a long search to recover the main wreck and above all the flight recorders.
Mr Bouillard, 63, worked for France’s air accident investigation bureau, or BEA, a world authority on probing air crashes and also led the investigation into the Concorde crash outside Paris in 2000.
Three BEA members are helping the Malaysian authorities in their search for flight MH370 that disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing plane on March 8 with 239 people on board.
20/03/14 Telegraph
