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Searchers recover parts of Lao Airlines plane
Investigators in Laos said Tuesday they have retrievedthe midsection of a Lao Airlines passenger plane that crashed into the MekongRiver a week ago, killing all 49 people on board, but said they have notrecovered the flight recorder
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nvestigators in Laos said Tuesday they have retrievedthe midsection of a Lao Airlines passenger plane that crashed into the MekongRiver a week ago, killing all 49 people on board, but said they have notrecovered the flight recorder.
The Lao Airlines ATR-72 turboprop plane crashed last Wednesday during a heavy storm as it approached Pakse Airport in southern Laos. It struck a riverbank and then plowed into the swift-running river.
Yakua Lopangkao, director-general of Laos' Department of Civil Aviation, said searchers used a crane to lift the middle of the fuselage from the river but believe the 'black box,' or flight recorder, is still underwater.
'We could still pick up the signal from the black box, which might have fallen out of the plane's midsection when we pulled it out from the water,' he said. 'We will keep searching for it.'
