您现在的位置: Language Tips> Audio & Video> Normal Speed News  
   
 





 
Air France plane did not break up in air
[ 2009-07-03 13:44 ]

Download

Initial results of an investigation into last month's Air France crash over the Atlantic find the aircraft plunged into the ocean at high speed. French investigators also say they are far from establishing the cause of the crash and the investigation will continue.

Top French investigator Alain Bouillard told a news conference the Air France craft was not destroyed in mid air, as some observers had previously suspected. The French aircraft, carrying 228 people on board, crashed into the Atlantic on June 1 as it headed from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.

Air France plane did not break up in air

Bouillard said that preliminary conclusion was drawn from scouring the debris of 640 items from the plane along with other important information.

Bouillard told reporters the investigation to date suggests the airplane was not destroyed in air and it appeared to have hit the water with a strong vertical acceleration. He said efforts to find the plane's black boxes would continue until July 10. After that, investigators would enter a second phase in their search, using different methods.

Bouillard also said control of the flight failed to pass from air traffic controllers in Brazil to those in Senegal, as planned. Efforts to connect to a data system in Dakar failed, he said, apparently because the Senegalese never received the plane's flight plan. He said that was not normal.

The crash was one of the worst in recent aviation history and the worst ever for Air France. Bouillard said one suspected cause of the crash, faulty speed sensors on the craft, were only one factor in the crash, but not its cause.

Meanwhile a teenage girl believed to be the only survivor of another crash off the Comoros Islands has returned to France. The Yemenia aircraft crashed early Tuesday. The other 151 people on board are presumed dead.

vertical acceleration:垂直加速度

Related stories:

Plane carrying 153 crashes near Comoros, child found alive

Plane with 8 Chinese crashes into sea

Possible Air France debris located in Atlantic

Presidential plane photo op scares New Yorkers

(Source: VOA 英语点津编辑)

英语点津版权说明:凡注明来源为“英语点津:XXX(署名)”的原创作品,除与中国日报网签署英语点津内容授权协议的网站外,其他任何网站或单位未经允许不得非法盗链、转载和使用,违者必究。如需使用,请与010-84883631联系;凡本网注明“来源:XXX(非英语点津)”的作品,均转载自其它媒体,目的在于传播更多信息,其他媒体如需转载,请与稿件来源方联系,如产生任何问题与本网无关;本网所发布的歌曲、电影片段,版权归原作者所有,仅供学习与研究,如果侵权,请提供版权证明,以便尽快删除。
相关文章 Related Story
 
 
 
本频道最新推荐
 
Ground zero
Teen jet survivor returns to family
强硬立场 hard-line stance
好莱坞女星收入榜 朱莉、安妮斯顿占前二
China Daily Video News July 2, 2009
翻吧推荐
 
论坛热贴
 
“无厘头”用英语如何表达?
迈克,突然好想你
给我的译文挑挑毛病
原来国家的名字如此浪漫
许巍《难忘的一天》- 英译