New data on technology to find the crashed plane – New Technology

French Navy ships Laplace is on the way with search equipment to the sea where it crashed Egyptair plane and its black boxes can be found.

There are now new information on the equipment the French company Alseamar will use to pick up signals from the black boxes of the crashed Egyptair plane.

According to France24, three experts from Alseamar be on board the French Navy hydrographic ship Laplace, who is now on the way from Corsica to the search area in the eastern Mediterranean.

the ship is said to be equipped with three big interception probes. The systems called Detector 6000, and are made of Alseamar to including the black boxes containing technical data and sound recordings from the plane.

The probes can be lowered 300 meters in the water and could hear sounds of 4-5 kilometers. After a while, they are taken up again. The recorded audio information is then downloaded to and processed in computers.

According to France24 considering the French Navy is also sending a submarine as well as other equipment that can be used for salvaging objects from great depths.

Another company, Deep OpenSearch, said to be about to be contracted to search in a neighboring area.

According to Egyptian accident investigators have already managed to pick up signals from the plane’s locator beacons, called Emergency locator transmitter (ELT). It helps to narrow the search area to a radio for about five kilometers. ELT transmitter is however independent of the black boxes.

Alsemar has so far chosen not to comment on their mission in the Mediterranean.

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