Posts Tagged "AF447"
A Reply to the ABC Report on AF447
ABC News correspondents, Lisa Stark and Ben Forer, recently published a news report about the Air France flight 447 crash. You can read the article, titled “Air France Flight 447: Black Boxes Indicate Pilot Error Caused Accident” here. The report tries to make the point that pilot error alone...Airbus Exonerated from AF447 Case- REPORT
UPDATE: The BEA has issued a press release stating that the Le Figaro article is too sensationalist and that no conclusions can be drawn from the investigation’s current state. UNCONFIRMED NEWS REPORT Reputed French newspaper, La Figero, has posted an extraordinary report that the French investigation agency BEA has...AF447 Recorder Data Intact, and Retrieved
The BEA has confirmed that they have been able to retrieve the data from Air France flight 447‘s recorders. The French investigators confirmed that the recorders contained readable data, and that they had retrieved “all of the data” from the flight data recorder and “whole recording” of the last...AF447 Cockpit-Voice Recorder Recovered
The BEA investigators have recovered the Cockpit-Voice Recorder of the Air France flight 447 which crashed in the Atlantic ocean on 1st June 2009. ( All photos courtesy of BEA ) The Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) has been localized at 21h50 UTC on Monday 2...May Day 2011 – A Significant Day for Aviation
The May Day of year 2011 – turned out to be a day of significant importance to aviation. In the true aviation fashion, two events where pilots said “Mayday” were solved on the very day. 1. AF447 FDR memory unit retrieved The missing memory unit of the Air...AF447 WRECKAGE FOUND – BEA
AIRLINEINDUSTRYREVIEW.COM – The French BEA has reported that it has been able to locate previously not-found wreckage of Air France Flight 447 with its fourth search attempt which was launched in March 2011. The investigators have verified the wreckage as belonging to AF447 ( operated by Airbus A330-200 F-GZCP...AF447 Black Box Location Pin-pointed within 5km
French radio RTL reports that the French Navy has located an area of 5x5km within which the flight data recorders of Air France flight 447 must be located. The news was confirmed by the French Department of Defense. This news comes following the launch of extended search for recovery...Tailfin Tear Marks on AF447 – A Possible Contributing Factor ?
I noticed the following photo while surfing Airliners.net Today’s Most Popular photos section. The photo is probably the last ever photo of F-GZCP, the aircraft which went down in the Atlantic as AF447, and has been taken on 31st May upon her last ever touchdown at Paris Charles De...AF447 Locator Signals Picked Up *UPDATED
French naval vessels have picked up a weak signal from AF447′s locator beacons a few minutes ago, Le Monde reported. A mini-submarine has been dispatched to try and find the flight data recorders. UPDATE: As of 6/25, it was revealed that the signals were not from the recorders and...12