Company Watch - Bombardier.Aug 20, 2007 Air Moorea Air Moorea is an airline based in Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia. It operates passenger services within the Polynesian islands. Its main base is Faaa International Airport, Papeete[1]. DHC-6-300 Twin Otter crashed Friday on initial climb from Moorea Temae Airport, where it departed for a 10-min. flight to Tahiti. Thirteen of 19 passengers onboard and the lone pilot were killed, the Flight Safety Foundation's Aviation Safety Network said in a preliminary report. The remaining six passengers had not been found, although some reports indicated that there were 16 confirmed fatalities. The carrier, which is affiliated with Air Tahiti Air Tahiti is a regional airline based in Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia. Air Tahiti's network covers 46 islands within French Polynesia, plus the island of Rarotonga. Its main base is Faa'a International Airport, Papeete[1]. , operates 20 roundtrip daily shuttles between Tahiti and Moorea. Aug 13, 2007 Aviation authorities said weather conditions were clear and the head of Air Moorea flight that crashed on Thursday, Christian Vernaudon said the pilot had not signaled any problem. An unidentified fisherman who was nearby told French television that it was immediately apparent that there was little hope of finding survivors. Authorities in Papeete said the victims included two European officials posted to the region, who local media said had been visiting a water purification  It has been suggested that , , and be merged into this article or section. plant. Aug
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Fourteen bodies have been recovered from the crashed Air Moorea Bombardier DHC-6 but six people remain missing and authorities hold out no hope of any survivors. Senior official Anne Bocquet said teams would continue to search for wreckage and bodies for a further two weeks and had asked local fishermen to report objects found at sea. Two police air crash investigators have been sent to the zone to work with three civilian experts in situ In place. When something is "in situ," it is in its original location. since Saturday. Aug 13, 2007 Plane Crashes In Polynesia, At Least 14 Dead. A passenger aircraft plunged into the sea in French Polynesia French Polynesia, officially Territory of French Polynesia, internally self-governing overseas country (2002 pop. 245,516) of France, consisting of 118 islands in the South Pacific. The capital is Papeete, on Tahiti. on Thursday, killing at least 14 people, with another six still missing at nightfall when a search was suspended, French authorities in Papeete said. An Air Moorea Bombardier DHC-6 aircraft with 19 passengers and a pilot on board came down after taking off from the island of Moorea on a 7 minute hop to the local capital Papeete. Police said 14 bodies had been recovered including that of the pilot but no survivors had been found. Television reports said 16 bodies had been recovered. All those on board were French apart from two Australians. Aug 13, 2007 Tahiti Plane Crash Voice Recorder A digital, handheld device that is used to record short reminders. Very lightweight and typically using AAA batteries, such devices use flash memory to hold up to 100 messages and more. Messages can be retrieved sequentially or by direct access by message number. See microcassette. Located. Search teams have located the cockpit flight recorder flight recorder Instrument that records the performance and condition of an aircraft in flight. Regulatory agencies require these devices on commercial aircraft to make possible the analysis of crashes or other unusual occurrences. of the Air Moorea passenger aircraft that crashed last week killing at least 14 people, but authorities said they would need specialist deep-water equipment to recover it. The conversation voice recorder on board the Bombardier DHC-6 Twin Otter could tell investigators why the aircraft with 19 passengers and a pilot came down on Thursday shortly after taking off from the island of Moorea on a short hop to the local capital Papeete. But local authorities in Papeete said none of their vessels was stable enough to provide a platform for the underwater robot being sent from Paris to recover the recorder, discovered at a depth of around 430 metres. Moorea is one of around 118 islands scattered across an area the size of Europe in the South Pacific that make up France's overseas territory of French Polynesia. Aug 13, 2007 The aircraft that crashed was an Air Moorea Bombardier DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft, veered to the right after take-off for the main island of Tahiti and crashed into the ocean at around 12:15 pm local time (6:15 p.m. EDT EDT abbr. Eastern Daylight Time EDT Eastern Daylight Time EDT n abbr (US) (= Eastern Daylight Time) → hora de verano de Nueva York EDT ) on Thursday. "I watched the plane depart. At 500 feet in the air, and following the 30 seconds in the air, the craft suddenly crashed," helicopter technician Temorere Marlon told Polynesian television. "It fell at a very fast speed. I was sure that something was definitely wrong," he said. Moorea is one of around 118 islands scattered across an area the size of Europe in the South Pacific that make up France's overseas territory of French Polynesia. 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