flight 447 conspiracy
Planes missing in storms sounded like something from the old days of oceanic flight, not the world of satellite links and automated flight systems. [1]
Nearly five days after the disappearance of Air France 447, it is becoming a little clearer how the Airbus A300, one of the world’s most modern airliners, came to grief with the loss of 228 lives. [2]
This video was shot on board the flight deck of a Qatar Airways Airbus A330-200 (A7-ACB) and provides a VERY detailed look at the controls and displays of the long-haul twinjet. [3]
All we know is that the Air France Airbus stopped flying very suddenly when its electrical power, cabin pressure and other systems suddenly failed a few hundred miles out of Brazil. [1]
Word this morning of the tragic disappearance and presumed crash of Air France Flight 447 somewhere off the Northeastern coast of Brazil has the entire planet asking a lot of questions with few available answers. [3]
But the Airbus A330-200, with 228 aboard seems to have fallen victim to the same unforgiving elements that have dogged mariners and aviators throughout the ages. [1]
Despite all its sophisticated flight systems — and some might say partly because of them — it seems that the airliner was knocked out of the sky by a storm. [...] Most plane crashes are not the result of a single event, but a chain of events, usually involving technical and human factors. [2]
With so little information available, including the whereabouts of the aircraft, those desperately seeking information - the airline, the manufacturer, the traveling public, the news media and most importantly the friends and families of those on board - are left only to speculate what may have happened to the 228 souls on-board. [3]
Brazilian aviation officials said Tuesday they spotted floating objects, including seats, in the Atlantic Ocean that may be from the aircraft. [...] The A-330 Airbus has not one but four electronic operating systems, any one of which is meant to safely fly the aircraft if the others are all disabled. [4]
Unlikely, given the separation of airliners on their oceanic airways. [1]
The data contained in those messages will provide crash investigators with their best clues for reconstructing Flight 447’s last horrific minutes and discovering what went so fatally and irredeemably wrong. [4]
That was certainly the first reaction to the news of the disappearance of the Airbus en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris yesterday. [1]
Airliners are struck by lightning all the time — they are carefully proofed against such strikes doing serious damage. [4]
Sources:
[1] Charles Bremner - Times Online - WBLG: What happened to Air France …
[2] Charles Bremner - Times Online - WBLG
[3] FlightBlogger - Aviation News, Commentary and Analysis: Airbus Archives
[4] What doomed Air France Flight 447? - UPI.com