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All Sundance victims recovered from wreckage JAYNE RICKARD and PETER KLINGER, The West Australian June 26, 2010, 9:29 am
UPDATE: All 11 victims of the Sundance Resources plane crash have been recovered from wreckage in impenetrable jungle in Congo.
The operation to recover bodies was completed by 3.13pm Congo time yesterday, about 10.13pm Perth time.
The bodies were transported to Yangadou with help from a French military helicopter before being taken to Ouesso and then Brazzaville by Congolese military aircraft.
In a statement released by Sundance Resources this morning, it confirmed the deceased were escorted at all times by two Sundance employees and one Dynamiq employee.
It said the Congolese Prime Minister, seven senior Congolese Ministers the Australian High Commissioner and representatives of Sundance were on hand to pay their respects when the bodies arrived in Brazzaville.
Sundance is working with the Australian Federal Police, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Congolese authorities to ensure an appropriate and dignified process is followed.
A specialist repatriation team will continue to work toward repatriation once all necessary procedures, including formal identification, have been completed in Brazzaville.
The families of the victims have been kept informed of the progress being made.
It is not clear how long it will take for the bodies to be returned to their families in WA, Queensland, Ireland, Britain and the US.
The breakthrough in the recovery of the bodies is expected to put renewed focus on the cause of the crash, which wiped out the entire board of the Perth-based iron ore company and is the worst tragedy in WAs mining industry since the Independent Resources crash disaster near Leonora in 1988.
The Congolese Government is expected to soon begin an inquiry into the cause of the crash of the Sundance-chartered flight, which left Cameroons capital Yaounde last Saturday.
Congo has invited Australia to participate in the inquiry.
The trip was arranged by Sundance for its board of directors, headed by chairman Geoff Wedlock, and support staff to see a key part of its Mbalam iron ore project.
Sources who have been to the crash site suggest the Aero-Service charter Casa C-212 careered into the mountain, possibly because the pilots were caught in a sudden cloud formation.
The cabin of the Casa C-212 was unpressurised, meaning the 30-year-old plane could not fly above 3000m. Much of the terrain around the crash site is between 500m and 1500m above sea level. All passengers are thought to have died on impact. The planes black box flight recorder has been found but last night it had not been recovered. Follow thewest.com.au on Twitter
