Bid to salvage jet wreckage
NZPA-PA London Salvage experts will attempt this week to raise large sections of wreckage from the Air India jumbo jet that plunged into the Atlantic off Ireland, killing 329 people.
As the mdlti-million dollar Work — aimed at solving the riddle of why the 747 crashed — gets under way, the recovery crews will be battling not only ocean depths, but also the worsening winter weather.
Huge cranes to hoist tonnes of vital debris from the seabed have been loaded on two Canadian vessels in Cork at the week-end. With divers from a Cork-
based company they will aim to attach special toughened wire cables to hundreds of pieces of wreckage from the aircraft. The divers will work from a single-handed midget submarine, known as “the basket.”
Heavy winches, linked to ship-board cranes 1800 m above them, will then take over.
Later they are expected to be assisted by a United States Navy chartered ship, crewed by American salvage technicians. Whatever can be brought to the surface will be shipped to Cork for forensic examination.
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