Posted on 03/15/2010 11:41:52 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Resumption of the search for the flight recorders from crashed Air France flight AF447 has been delayed, but French investigators expect a US detection vessel to arrive in Brazil next week.
The Bureau d'Enquetes et d'Analyses states that the vessel, the Anne Candies, is predicted to reach Recife around 24 March.
Its departure for the scene had been held up by "administrative and technical difficulties", says the BEA, as well as poor weather conditions.
Recovery teams are planning to use deep-water search equipment in a bid to find the wreckage of the Airbus A330 which came down in the South Atlantic on 1 June last year.
Anne Candies is equipped with a dual-frequency towed side-scan sonar, capable of deep-water searches to a depth of 20,000ft (6,100m).
Its operator, Phoenix International, says the equipment can be used to trace a swath with a typical width of 1.8km when hunting for aircraft debris fields.
The vessel also carries a 2.9t cable-controlled underwater recovery vehicle, known as CURV-21.
Anne Candies is set to rendezvous with a second ship, the Seabed Worker, to which it will transfer equipment. The BEA has yet to set a formal date to resume the search. The latest effort will be the third attempt to locate the A330's flight recorders.
(Excerpt) Read more at flightglobal.com ...
How did the US come to call a submarine “Anne Candies”? Are we accepting sponsorships from confectionery manufacturers now?
oops sorry, i assumed wrong kind of ship. still looks like i could go aboard there and buy some chocolate truffles.
Pitote (spelling) tubes , are installed using 1947 specification , or otherwise known as great jet engine yr.
There is an 300k euro (good thing it collapsed) guestimate air speed indicator for anyone that wants to spurge and get one for their shiney airplane collection.
The most fun there is an 38mile per h our window where these Chinese overhauls tubs have to be in order for them not to stall and fall like a brick.
To top it all off Boeing crew can turn Hal off and try to fly, airbus pilots tried to reboot blue screen of death on the way down.
Cash is king.
www.ottocandies.com/about_us_history.html ·
Built at the shipyard I used to work for before it went bankrupt last year. Very neat vessels. Sophisticated dynamic positioning system that allows it to remain in place in rough seas.
Not that there's anything wrong with that...
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