A320 - Searches difficult after crash

Research continued yesterday to retrieve the bodies of five other passengers after the crash of an Airbus A320, Thursday, in the late afternoon. A spectacular accident. This aircraft, considered one of the safest in the world, crashed off the Mediterranean shortly before 17 hours. It was on a test flight circular. On board the aircraft, seven people: two German pilots and five New Zealanders. Two bodies were recovered several hours after the crash. The others remained unaccounted for yesterday. The research was made difficult because of bad weather. The gendarmes roamed the beach at Canet-en-Roussillon (Pyrenees-Orientales) which focused relief, in search of other bodies that the sea could bring on land. Cause material or human? The mystery remains. And it may take time to understand how the aircraft was damaged at sea while on a flight simple technique, it was in excellent condition and very well maintained. Yesterday morning, divers inspected the area around the wreckage at a depth of 40 meters in rough seas. The Aquarius mine hunter of the Navy from Toulon (Var) the day before was also involved in the search for the black box of the aircraft. The aircraft flew from Perpignan airport for a flight after a technical revision in the aircraft maintenance company EAS. The aircraft belonged to Air New Zealand was managed and leased for two years by the German company XL Airways Germany. He entered service in 2005. The accident investigation office was seized of the matter.