Posts Tagged "Air France"

Air France – KLM orders both A350 and 787

Air France and KLM today announced their plan to purchase both Airbus A350 and Boeing 787 aircraft for its future fleet expansion and renewal. The deal, approved yesterday by Air France KLM Board of Directors, is yet to be finalized by the manufacturers. The order will consist of 50...

Final Moments of Air France flight 447

The BEA today released a special report containing the final moments of Air France flight 447. The report can be found here.  The aircraft apparently entered a stall and never recovered due to continuous nose ups and a very high AoA. As once guessed by this author, the aircraft...

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 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...

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...

Breaking : Air France A330 missing UPDATED

Breaking : An Air France A330-200, AF447, carrying 228 pax from Rio De Janeiro (RIO) to Paris (CDG) is missing from the radar screen. It is not clear in which FIR this incident occured. The flight was due to arrive at 1115. This is the first fatal incident ever...