In flight over the sea and ashore along the beaches, operations to recover any debris off of flight MH370 and the French island of Reunion, in the Indian Ocean, resumed Sunday with the return of good weather.
Casa aircraft, a military cargo off-range, left the military airbase of St. Mary (North Reunion) mid-morning to resume his rotations off the island: the device has a battery life of four hours and a half during which the ten observers on board will scrutinize the 5,300 sq km of blue sea that they must rake.
A land patrols of four or five gendarmes or police officers simultaneously roam the eastern coast of the island. Since Saturday they roam a vast area between the municipalities of Saint-Benoit and Bras-Panon. And these are kilometers of beach, pebbles and sea these men dig at him advancing.
Friday featured a gendarmerie had joined the offshore research before making a U-turn due to inclement weather. This Sunday, the sun is back, but the prefecture warned that “the boats will be incurred if a debris had to be recovered”.
A Navy Panther helicopter of a 100-mile-range Water (185 km) and two gendarmerie (12 to 24 nautical miles), three stars and the police force and gendarmerie land are mobilized for searches ordered Friday by the French government, which should last “a week” in First, according to the prefect of the island Dominica Sorain, the most senior of the State in this distant territory of France.
According to several experts, quoted by AFP and other media, the potential scope of the research is enormous, especially since the debris found in late July, part of the wing, was probably brought to Reunion by the South Equatorial Current (SEC), a warm current that flows between the . Australia and Indonesia towards Madagascar
The coasts of the island are also crisscrossed by walkers, who improvised investigators – or wreck hunters. “It is perhaps a march ‘of the plane on Sunday hoping one of them brandishing an aluminum bar. Another picked, in his words, “the exhibits” she intends to keep “memory”.
“There is a kind of spirit + treasure hunt + which is taking root and we are called for everything and sometimes anything “, recently reported a source close to the investigation. But since then, the craze seems landed on the island of Reunion.
The Malaysian authorities had assured themselves have regained seat cushions and windows of the airplane disappeared, before France announces that no new aircraft debris was in possession of investigators.
Since the wing fragment most likely belonging to the MH370 flight was found there, the small town of Saint-André (50,000 inhabitants) is under the spotlight and saw landing the world’s cameras around.
The city, whose motto is “Multis Gentibus Cor Unum” (several races, one heart) organized a mass dedicated to the 239 victims of flight MH370. The majority (153) of them being Chinese, a “Hail Mary” in Mandarin was sung by the choir and 239 luminions a per victim were on.
The city is preparing also “to accommodate families (of victims, ie) if they want to come in Reunion. They will be accompanied in the best conditions in the territory of (our) city, “assured the mayor in a statement.
He also confirmed its intention to” make build a monument dedicated to the memory of people missing today. “
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