Black box of Airbus plane crash in France found

According to a VNA reporter in Germany, German media quoted French officials as saying that French rescue forces found the black box of the Germanwings Airbus A320 plane that crashed in southern France on the afternoon of March 24.

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the device would be handed over to investigators to determine the cause of the crash. German and American experts have said there are no signs of terrorism, and analysts say weather was not a factor in the crash.

Rescue helicopter flies over the plane crash site (Source: AFP)

German experts said the plane crashed very unusually and was most likely caused by a very serious technical error. There was also a possibility that there was a problem with cabin pressure or that the pilot detected a problem and tried to land the plane, but was unsuccessful.

Regarding the possibility of survivors of the plane, the head of the French military rescue team, General David Galtier, said there may still be survivors in this tragic accident. According to him, rescuers saw a victim still moving at the scene of the plane crash.

Previously, French President Francois Hollande confirmed that none of the 150 people on board Germanwings flight 4U9525, including 144 passengers and 6 crew members, were still alive.

Germanwings also confirmed that 67 Germans were on the list of victims, including a group of 16 high school students and two teachers participating in an educational exchange program with Spain. Meanwhile, Spain said there were 45 passengers with Spanish surnames. Among the passengers in the accident were two young children.

At a press conference on the evening of March 24 about the accident, Germanwings, a branch of Lufthansa (Germany), said the ill-fated Airbus A320 lost contact with radar and French air traffic control at 10:53 a.m. on March 24 (ie 4:53 p.m. Hanoi time) at an altitude of 6,000 feet (about 1,800m).

After reaching that altitude for a minute, the plane began to descend and continued to fall for eight minutes. The ill-fated plane crashed in a remote area in the Alps and, according to French officials, broke into 12 large pieces.

According to Germanwings, the pilot flying the Airbus A320 had more than 10 years of experience and about 6,000 flight hours. The Airbus A320 was also thoroughly inspected in the summer of 2013.

Meanwhile, French civil aviation authorities said that no distress signal was sent out, but that the air traffic control system had decided to declare the plane in distress because it could not contact the crew. Previously, there was information that the plane had sent out a distress signal before the crash./.

According to VNA