Air France Flight 447: Faulty Pitot Tubes & Pilot Error

Did Pilot Error Cause Air France 447 Crash? Investigators are analyzing the black box recovered from the undersea wreckage of Air France Flight 447, and the the preliminary result is that the flight crew was not...

Air France Flight 447: More Wreckage Found

Air France Flight 447: Will Black Boxes Be Recovered? Investigators found some more of the wreckage of Air France Flight 447, which crashed into the ocean while flying from Rio de Janiero to Paris on June 1, 2009....

Air France Flight 447 Plunged Vertically Into Ocean At High Speed

French officials believe that Air France Flight 447, which crashed on June 1st, plunged vertically into the Atlantic Ocean, instead of breaking apart in midair. Investigators previously believed that Air France Flight 447 broke apart in the midair before hitting the Atlantic...

Air France Flight 447: Big Zub in Bolivia!

What happened on Bolivian TV over the weekend? Most people would probably answer “Who cares really?”, as there was certainly nothing more interesting there than anywhere else in the world… (except maybe in...

Flight Air France 447: Collective Negligence & Incompetence?

Extracts from http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10577643 : Start extract Air France voiced its concerns to Airbus months ago about the reliability in icy conditions of the model of speed sensors, or "Pitot tubes", fitted to the A330-200...

United States and France Continue Search for Air France Black Box

A United States underwater team has arrived off the coast of Brazil to assist a French nuclear submarine in the search for the black box of Air France flight 447. The Airbuss A330 went down last week with 228 people on board, so far only 17 bodies have been recovered. The...

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