Eric Derivry

• Airlines Rush to Replace Speed Monitors

RECIFE, Brazil -- Airlines moved quickly Tuesday to replace speed monitors like those suspected of feeding false information to the computers on Air France Flight 447 and possibly leading the plane to break up over the Atlantic Ocean. Seventeen more bodies were pulled from the sea Tuesday, bringing the number recovered to 41. Another 187 have yet to be found. The first remains were brought to land by helicopter and will be flown to this coastal city Wednesday for identification.

... had such problems," said Air France pilot Eric Derivry, a spokesman for the SNPL pilots union. Wh...

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• June 10, 2009

• Air France Replaces Speed Devices

RECIFE, Brazil - Air France and other airlines moved Tuesday to replace speed monitors suspected of feeding false information to the computers of Flight 447 and leading to a series of failures that broke the plane apart over the Atlantic Ocean. Four more bodies were pulled from the sea, and helicopters began ferrying other remains to shore. A total of 28 bodies have been recovered; 200 others have yet to be found. Soldiers and medical personnel in surgical gowns carried off the remains in body bags on the Fernando de Noronha archipelago, to be flown to the coastal city of Recife, where experts will try to identify them using DNA and photos.

... had such problems," said Air France pilot Eric Derivry, a spokesman for the SNPL pilots union. Wh...

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• June 10, 2009