Flight AH5017 crash: France burglaries investigation in the incident
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A video shows the crashed plane. Photo: copyright
Experts of the United Nations in charge of investigating the cause of Air Algérie AH5071 crash in the region of Gao, found the second black box of the plane, as announced by a spokesman for “Minusma” Radia Chouri, who said the black box of the second plane was found on Saturday morning in the place of the incident by the Minusma experts in the are of Kossi, 100 km from “GAO” in northern Mali, while the first box was moved by French military officials to “GAO”.
Previously, Transport Minister, Amar Ghoul announced that one of the black boxes of the plane have been found before being sent to the International Aviation Organization for an investigation to determine the circumstances of the plane’s disappearance.
Investigators began Saturday their work at the site of Air Algérie plane crash, which led to the death of all the passengers, as the official in the presidency in Burkina Faso, Gen. Gilbert Diandiri said; “It is difficult today to lift anything.”
Gen. Diandira, who accompanied the President of Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaore, during an inspection on Friday afternoon of the crash site in the region of Kossi, which is a hundred miles far from GAO, the largest city in Mali, where the plane crashed, said; “Concerning the bodies of the victims, I think it is difficult to transfer or move them because we only find human remains on the ground, Dbut scattered debris. This happened because the plane hit the ground first before it jumped to fall into the most distant point.”
A helicopter belonging to Air Force in Burkina Faso monitored, on Thursday evening, the remains of the plane in Kossi area, close to the border between Mali and Burkina Faso, as pictures that were taken by soldiers from France and Burkina Faso, showed pieces of metal that cannot be identified easily, and that were spread across tens of meters.
Over 20 military elements, including French cops and gendarmes, and a team of the French intelligence, moved on Saturday to the area in order to determine the identity of the victims.
Burkina Faso authorities ensured the transfer of relatives of the victims in groups on board of helicopters to the scene, as announced by the Minister of Territorial and Security Management, Jerome Boukoma.
French President met on Saturday, for almost an hour and a half at “the Elysee” with Prime Minister Manuel Valls, and a number of members of the government, in preparation for the reception of the families of Air Algere AH5017″.
Third meeting since Thursday came in preparation for the reception of families at Foreign Ministry’s headquarters, at the presence of the foreign ministers of Mali, Burkina Faso and Algeria’s ambassador to Paris, to offer condolences to the victims’ families- as announced by the Elysee statement-.
Algerian Foreign Ministry announced that Algeria will be represented by its ambassador in Paris, Ammar Boudjamaa.
Spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, Abdekaziz Benali Cherif, told APS that “FM Ramtane Laamamra was invited to attend this meeting, but he could not travel to Paris because of other commitments.”
In this context, French media said that 10 people from one family are among the victims of the crash, who are the “Rhone-Alpes”, as Burkina Faso officials assert that there are no survivors, excluding the hypothesis of the existence of survivors in the incident.
