| The worst tragedy of Air France |
His 228 occupants die |
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| This is the plane Airbus 330-200 of Air France who eliminated the night of Sunday, the 31st with his 228 passengers and crew members in flight of Rio de Janeiro Paris. Photos: airteamimages.com / AP |
Federico Escher and Alan Clendenning
Fernando de Noronha, Brazil / AP
At the end of this edition (Thursday, the 5th of June night), military planes and ships kept on finding new remains of the plane of Air France, eliminated with 228 passengers and crew members on board the night of Sunday, the 31st of May, but the rough sea and the strong winds were making the tasks difficult and were delaying the arribo of submersible of deep, indispensable waters for the search of the black boxes.
Ships rescuers of diverse nations were sailing towards the place to initiate the recovery of the remains, which were including a piece of seven meters plane and a spot of oil of 20 kilometers that Brazilian pilots sighted from the air. There were not signs of life of the plane that was traveling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, affirmed the colonel of the air force Jorge Amaral.
It is foreseen that the recovery tasks will be extremely arduous. The thunderstorms period begins and the bottom of the sea is to approximately 7.000 meters deep.
The flight 447 eliminated minutes after penetrating in an extremely dangerous thunderstorm front on Sunday, the 31st night, but is not known what caused the flaw of his electrical systems and the pressure of the cabin.
In the middle of the storm
The authorities announced details of the messages, but the Brazilian newspaper O State of Sao Paulo a more finished chronology published.
Officials of Air France and Brazilian military men refused to confirm or deny the report, but if it is exact, he suggests that the plane did pieces to itself to thousands of meters of height when it was crossing a violent thunderstorm, told experts.
According to the report, the pilot said in a manual sign to the 23 local time that was crossing an area of black clouds electricity ccargadas with strong winds and beams. Information satelitales indicates winds of 160 kph straight in the route of the plane.
Ten minutes later, the plane expressed a series of messages, indicating that the automatic pilot was disconnected, the electronic control of the managers of flight had gone on to an alternative energy source and control panel necessary for stability of plane they were damaged, it points out the report.
Three minutes later, other automatic messages indicated the flaw of two fundamental systems used to watch the speed, height and direction.
Then there supervened the flaw of electrical systems that control the principal computer of flight and the aerodynamic brakes.
The last message, to the 23.14, it indicated a fall of the pressure and electrical flaws.
“PIECES WERE DONE IN THE AIR”
A specialist in aviation made sure that the electrical thunderstorms, the beams or a catastrophic combination of factors could have destroyed the plane of Air France.
Although the messages do not indicate why the plane fell down, yes they suggest that pieces were done in the air, indicated Bill Voss, president of the safety Foundation in Flight in Alexandria, Virginia.
“ They tell us the history of the fall. But they do not explain what the cause of the fall was”, said Voss. “There are the second ones in which the control got lost and the plane began to ha-cerse pieces in the air”, it added.
Guatemala
Lynching
Three men who had thrown four corpses in a street were burned by the settlers of the village Cancabal, department of Huehuetenango, located to 260 kilometers of the Guatemalan capital, on Friday, the 29th. A persons' rabble blocked the way of exit and captured the supposed delinquents. Later they murdered them and set fire to the vehicle.
Honduras
End to sequestration
His captores liberated on Tuesday, the 2nd the veteran journalist of the local chain of radio HRN and ex-Honduran deputy 72-year-old Andrés Torres and, after having being kidnapped 18 days ago. The fue left in a highway nearby Yarumela, 90 kilometers to the north of Tegucigalpa, and the police discovered it walking along the route. His family paid not stated rescue.
Colombia
Uribe against Saints
The president Alvaro Uribe, who still does not say publicly if he will be a candidate, appears at the head of a popular survey, with 57 % of the electoral preferences. But when the interviewees were consulted for whom they would vote and in the list proposal was not included to Uribe, then 19 % declared himself in favor of his ex-Minister of Defence, Juan Manuel Santos Santos, continued by the ex-minister of Agriculture, Andrés Felipe Arias, with 12 %.
Venezuela
They restrict remittances
As part of the process of hardening of the exchange control, the Commission of Administration of Currencies (Cadivi) reduced from 1.800 to 900 dollars the monthly authorizations of currencies that will be able to be assined for the remittances operations to relatives who reside in the exterior, reported on Monday, the 1st the government
Costa Rica
Justice is done with farmers
The peasants Randall Espinoza Fallas y Asdrúbal Alberto Morales Peraza, both neighbors of Banana plantations of Pérez Zeledón, a small town on the south deCosta Rich, received on Tuesday, the 2nd, on the part of the Chancellery, checks sent by the Department of the Treasure of the United States. The total was corresponding to them for wage deductions that they applied when they took part of a program of sowing of trees between 2005 and 2006.
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