The investigation into the accident to the Air Moorea DHC6 registered F-OIQI is progressing. The investigators have thus been able to identify the position of the flight recorder that was on board the airplane, a Cockpit Voice Recorder. According to the initial results, it is located at a depth of about 450 metres on a rocky slope on the sea bed, with strong currents in the vicinity. Precise definition of its position is being undertaken. Recovery operations for the CVR, as well as operations for observation and lifting of relevant parts of the wreckage, will be undertaken as soon as the heavy equipment required has arrived at the site, which may take several more days.

Work at the site, which is being conducted with coordination from the High Commissioner for French Polynesia, is being undertaken in close collaboration with all of the services involved, in particular with the judicial authorities and the French Navy.