“A relief, “says the young woman.
It was his first day on site. Working in tandem with another mountain gendarme, it’s mission was to “find the black box and remove personal effects” of the victims. “I was really attached to personal effects. We tried to go into areas that had not been searched to bring a maximum of clothes. And it is seeking those clothes I found it, “says the policeman rescuer 32 years.
Called Flight Data Recorder (FDR), this valuable investigative element, which contains hundreds of flight parameters, was at the bottom of a “very steep ravine that ends abruptly,” said the young redhead with blue eyes. “We took the liberty to throw debris down and is digging in the debris as it appeared,” says Alice Coldefy, describing a “very soft ground, such as gravel.”
VIDEO. The second black box out debris digging
Damaged, as long as a large shoe box, the box had the same color as the rock. “We had a black box pictures from multiple angles, it was taken out and was compared with what we had found and that was it,” she said. “Everyone was happy, it was a relief. A relief for all the people who worked there for a week and a half relentless, “she continues.
Forty still mobilized gendarmes
Especially as research conditions are difficult with a land ‘quite steep and dusty, “said the aid worker, yet accustomed to interventions in the crevices of the Vallée Blanche and breathtaking cliffs of Mont Blanc. “Physically, the harder it is all the dust that carries, working with masks and it is quite complicated to breathe. String is needed in the steepest places, “she describes. As for the landscape, it is “quite unreal, we do not realize what we see too,” said the policeman.
(AFP / Pascal Guyot)
Alice Coldefy in 2012 became the first woman to join the high mountain police squad (PGHM) Chamonix, the most prestigious mountain rescue unit, which has 43 members . “It’s a discreet that does not try to put themselves forward,” explains Jean-Baptiste Estachy, commander of PGHM Chamonix, saying “very happy with the work of Alice.” Only three women officiate in a 15 PGHM France. In September, Alice Coldefy has also become a mountain guide, joining the thirty females in the profession in France 1,600 members.
On Friday, forty gendarmes were to resume research on the area crash, with a mission to recover a maximum of personal belongings (clothes, phones, etc.) in order to return them to the families.
VIDEO. The second black box found
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