New search for lost Air France Airbus to begin in March

The French air accident investigation agency, the Bureau d’Enquetes et d’Analyses (BEA), has announced that a new search for the wreckage of Air France Airbus A330-200 F -GZCP will start in March.

Flying Flight AF447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, F-GZCP crashed into the South Atlantic in the early morning of June 1, 2009, and 228 people lost their lives. The cause of the accident remains a mystery.
This new search, which will cost $12,5-million, will be jointly funded by Air France and Airbus, and will be the fourth search for the lost aircraft. The key objective is the location and recovery of F-GZCP’s two so-called Black Boxes (they are actually bright orange in colour), the Cockpit Voice Recorder and the Digital Flight Data Recorder.

The search will employ the capabilities of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, which is based in the US state of Massachusetts and is the world’s biggest private non-profit oceanographic institution.
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