With a new road built to the crash site of the doomed Germanwings plane in the French Alps, investigators today resumed their grim search through debris and body parts.
Three trucks set off from the dropzone in Seynes-les-Alpes early in the morning after a hectic 48-hour road-building operation to ease access to the remote mountainside.
"It means we can work work faster, later and bring back more items," said one police officer.
Somewhere in there lies the second "black box" recorder, which gathered technical data on the flight, and has yet to be found.
Search teams are having to dig into the loose earth on the assumption the black box has been buried, the policeman said.
The search was expected to finish by April 8, after which a civilian clean-up group, funded by airline owner Lufthansa, will tidy up the site.
Authorities believe co-pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately locked the plane on a collision course with the mountain and are scouring his background for a possible motive.
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