Crash Mali: Second black box found, presumably, researchers

By Ahamadou Cisse with Armel Bailly in Ouagadougou | AFP -

After the discovery of the first case of black Air Algeria that crashed in northern Mali, UN experts have found that the second Saturday of the crash, what the researchers expected, including France, the work is exquisite.

AH5017 Air Algeria flight data recorder from the experts of the United Nations Mission in Mali (Minusma) in the area of Gossi, about 100 km from Gao (northern Mali), where the plane crashed is recovered Thursday.

"This is a positive development that greatly help", is to investigate the accident, spokesman Minusma Radhia Achouri.

He said the black box should Gao, which is based on a "management tactical operations centers," French military operations in the country, Mali and Minusma be addressed.

The first image was recovered and Gao Friday French soldiers taken to Paris.

Aircraft, McDonnell Douglas MD83 leased Ouagadougou for Air Algeria had the Spanish company Swiftair Algeria left Wednesday, Thursday and crashed 50 minutes after takeoff.

There were no survivors among the 118 people on board 112 passengers - including 54 French, 23 Burkina Faso, 8 six Algerians and other Lebanese citizens - and six Spanish team.

Twenty French gendarmes and police, together with a team of collaborators research and analysis (BEA) French on the floor waiting during the day on Saturday. Are particularly reductions in victim identification.

In Paris, French President Francois Hollande must be received by the family on Saturday afternoon.

- Crash occurred in bad weather -

On Saturday morning, the representative of France, one in Lebanon and one family remained on board the helicopter area of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Gossi the crisis team, without the details of his identity set.

Government of Burkina Faso has announced its decision to conduct a small number of victims of the accident on Friday led back locally by the Burkinabe President Blaise Compaoré.

"We wanted the representatives of the families of the French, Lebanese, and Burkina Faso (...) to be, because we have a lot of places," said the Burkinabe Minister of Territorial Administration and Security, Jerome Bougouma.

General Diendiéré Gilbert, Head of the Special Staff of the President of Burkina Faso, as well as a member of the delegation, said that the recovery of the body-proclaimed "very difficult."

"It's hard to recover anything, and even the bodies of the victims, I think it is very difficult to recover, because we only saw pieces of human flesh scattered around the ground," he said.

"I Debris was scattered over a distance of 500 meters, but found that this go due to the fact that the plane crashed in the first (a) the ground and bouncing likely to continue," he said.

President of Mali, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, what a strong delegation had, in the region of Gao also said on Friday, the country of origin of the victims "deep sympathy" Mali. "We can only bow his head to the bodies of the disappeared," he said.

No explanation was at the time the cause of the accident are available, although many experts believe that the weather is not, perhaps, a stranger.

"The place where the accident occurred was the scene of a training plane potentially dangerous storm," the agency said in a statement the Safety of Air Navigation in Africa and Madagascar (ASECNA) based in Dakar. This agency, which covers 17 countries in Africa and France, managed through the air space of 16.5 million km2.

But the families of the victims and experts hope that the answers by the black boxes to find all the data theft, including record cockpit. They indicate important information and areas of research to determine the cause of the plane crash.

Gao Region is still a dangerous place where jihadists are still widely used, as well as armed bandits and traffickers take advantage of the vastness of the desert in this area, it is difficult to control.

French soldier is connected from the very beginning of his speech in January 2013, hunting groups in northern Mali to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). Jihadists had occupied the region for almost 10 months between 2012 and early 2013.