AF 447 crash - Air France - aviation - Brazil

Six new bodies recovered from crash

Saturday 13 June 2009

A French navy ship has retrieved six more bodies from the Atlantic Ocean, where an Air France airliner went down nearly two weeks ago, a Brazilian military spokesman said. The find brings to 50 the number of bodies recovered.

Saturday 13 June 2009

By News Wires (text) / Regane Ranucci (video)

AFP - A French navy ship on Friday recovered six more bodies from the Atlantic Ocean where an Air France airliner went down nearly two weeks ago, a Brazilian military spokesman said.

Brazilian military spokesman general Ramon Cardoso said the bodies had been picked up at sea by the ship Mistral.

The find brings to 50 the number of bodies recovered in the wake of the crash of the plane, which went down over the ocean on the night from May 31 to June 1 with 228 people on board.

Cardoso said the search for the remains will continue until there is no more hope to recover any new ones.

AF 447 crash - Air France - aviation - Brazil

[10] reactions :

15/06/2009 07:49:14 Alert a moderator

AF 447 CRASH

By Anonyme - Ankara Turkey

I have been involved in design and analysis of aircraft structures. If the vertical tail would have been ripped apart during the crash, I would expect at least some small part of the rear fuselage still attached to it. This points to the fact that it may have failed during flight. If this is the root cause of the crash, it may be due to a very strong lateral gust (turbulence) or vibration induced due to excess speed. If auto-throttle kicked in and caused aircraft to overspeed due to lack of speed data, severe vibrations may start at the tail section overstressing the structure. All victims, rest in peace, and condolences to all loved ones of the victims. I hope they can recover the black boxes to find out what exactly went wrong and prevent it to happen again.
14/06/2009 03:19:36 Alert a moderator

Air France 447

By Patricia - San Francisco

With the vertical stabilizer/tail/rudder having fallen so far from the rest of the plane and with it still having some of the hinges/fuselage attached; they are saying it seems to have come apart from the plane BEFORE it hit the water and may be the cause. This would point to a failure of the composite materials. Also, some say that the condition of the water bottles show that the plane did not open at 35K feet but at a lower altitude, possibly dropping like the Quantus (autopilot shutoff problem) flight then leveling off and then breaking apart. Oh, what a horror! I feel terrible about the people aboard and those who love them and I pray they were spared the pain of the physical trauma as well as the horror (retroactively since God transcends time). Airbus can fix these issues and move forward to build an even safer craft. They are a great company.
13/06/2009 13:35:41 Alert a moderator

Key to understanding operational failing is absence of mayday

By Jon Israel - Ireland

About three days after the Airbus accident I speculated that the flight crew were clearly rendered non-functioning at the cataastrophe. My argument was that the cockpit had 'failed' to function due to a pressure loss or sudden fire. I read that an Airbus made an emergency landing in Siberia a few days back due to a cracked windscreen. No amount of electrical failures should have prervented the crew sending a Mayday unless the crew was already compromised.
13/06/2009 10:25:44 Alert a moderator

AF 447 Crash

By tedmp - Zimbabwe

While I appreciate the tireless efforts made to retrieve the victims' bodies, I also think the efforts
are getting more of covering up the already known but undisclosable secret behind the crash maybe for
political and business reasons coz rate of recovery at such a wide and deep place makes it sure that the
missing black boxes could have been found already by these very ABLE experts.
Truth is coming nomatter how long it is going to take us. To the innocent victims high in heaven there I say," Rest in Peace."
12/06/2009 00:31:36 Alert a moderator

AF447

By Churruca29 - Spain

Snakedoctor3122: The A330/340 is undoubtedly a safe plane, as there are about a 1,000 out there and flying every day in all sorts of weather and conditions. The worrying thing is not knowing what caused the accident and a similar incident in your country QF72 on 7 October 2008 is being investigated by your own ATSB and have issued a preliminary report but could not pin point the problem. Read the report, it WILL make you think.... Nevertheless one mustn't jump to conclusions and take into perspective that it is a safe airplane, as there are a 1,000 out there and flying every day.
12/06/2009 02:02:38 Alert a moderator

flight 447

By Snakedoctor3122 - Australia

Surely somebody should know something about the crash? I can smell a cover-up ! Air France should come clean and provide more information to the public.
11/06/2009 18:08:26 Alert a moderator

Air France 447

By Happiness kudzotsa - South Africa

I JUST WANT TO THANK GOD FOR A BREAKTHROUGH IN ATLANTIC OCEAN THIS IS A HAND OF GOD. AND TO THOSE WHO ARE IN SORROW MAY THE ALMIGHT GOD COMFORT THEM. ESPECIALLY THE SEARCHING CREW GOD TO GUIDE THEM UNTIL THEY FINISH THEIR WORK.
11/06/2009 13:09:07 Alert a moderator

airfance339 etc.

By Anonymejoseph walker - dorset uk

The only logical conclusion is that they should be looking at the electrical power supplies to the aircraft .is it possible that lightening could make all the systems ineffective in servere weather conditions.?.or the computerisation power supplies independently.
11/06/2009 12:58:34 Alert a moderator

airfance339 etc.

By Anonymejoseph walker - dorset uk

Quite amusing the intelligence of the human race ,probably more the lack of it,all this collective bodies broadcasters and media ,get educated ,your intellect is moronic,how long have these planes been flying in similiar conditions?answer this first ,then get to the next staGE ,PROBABLY EDUCATION IS MORE IMPORTANT.
11/06/2009 12:57:20 Alert a moderator

Reliability

By j daeschler - Scotland

The saga about the unfolding of the speed sensors unreliability is certainly non reassuring. Off course Airbus knows as how many planes use this type of sensors , where, which Company, the data base of the rate and occurence failures must be massive. It can be tracked back to specific time, place, altitude, weather for each fail;ure reported. Why have some airlines opted to make changes themselves or order different type of sensors ? instruments ? It looks like the pilot and French union got fed up with the why and may be scenario and have taken over from the politics. So what is so different about supersonic speed planes / jet fighters (Concorde) and other manufacturers (Boeing) they do not ice up ?