Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Key parts of airplane recovered from Juan Fernandez crash site. CASA C-212 Aviocar 300DF, Fuerza Aérea de Chile. Isla Robinsón Crusoe Airport, Chile. Accident occurred September 2, 2011.


JUAN FERNÁNDEZ — During the past weekend of Nov. 4-6, in the third phase of Operation Loreto, the FACH recovery team discovered human remains and parts of the Casa-212 plane that was involved in the Juan Fernández crash that occurred two months ago.

The Minister of Defense Andrés Allamand reported on Friday, Nov. 4 that they had found and recovered various parts of the plane including the nose of the structure and the surrounding structure, the floor of the fuselage and the left side, the tail cone and other elements like the battery and a tool bag.

On Sunday, the recovery crew extracted the two engines of the plane, the attack board and the wing-flap of the left side of the plane.

The fragments, according to the acting commander of the FACH, Jorge Rojas, were the most relevant parts of the airplane. These parts will help the group discover what really happened in the crash that took the lives of 21 people.

The recovery crew also found bone fragments and human scalps. Allamand said that the remains have been sent to the legal medical service where medical investigator Juan Cristóbal Mera will take charge of identifying the remains and returning them to the proper families. Personal objects such as cameras were also found.

“What we have found, in terms of volume [of remains] is not significant. But we hope that this could serve us technically in order to advance the investigation of the people that we are missing. It could also be that these remains belong to people we’ve already found. We do not know.” Allamand said.

Depending on the weather conditions, the final stage of Operation Loreto is planned for tomorrow, Nov. 9, when the recovery team of the FACH will extract the final parts of  the plane.

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