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Weird how they say that Air Frace has "Much the same" safety record as Qantas...
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Air France having a press conference as we speak, watching it live on sky uk. translator is...bad
Apparently the crew was very experienced on the A330. Doing everything possible. Plane entered a storm zone. Air France seem keen to rule out terrorism. Received some automated messages regarding weather. Seem fairly sure it is around 400nm off Brazil (I think thats what they said, I only caught the last bit of that response). EDIT: 15 minutes after they lost contact, they received the automatic messages re: turbulence.
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Hi All,
Rhys, You may want to correct an earlier post. You Stated this Quote:
It is South America, unless they moved Rio in the last few hours. Stuart
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Not really good news after reading various forums.
Just one question, with all the technology these days, will the authorities head to those that have SBS-1 and the likes as part of the investigation if the aircraft has been lost? How would they get this information? my thoughts go to the families. Not a good day for aviation indeed. Cheers Adam |
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RIP to all involved. I was boarding a flight in Berlin when the story came through everyone devastated watching the Plasma screen as we were boarding. Lets hope they can find the black boxes to find the cause and make sure it dont happen again!
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Sad news and my condolances to the families involved.
Time will tell if they are able to revover the Flight Data Recorder and Cockpit Voice Recorder and find out what caused this accident. Lets hope they can and work out why we lost so many people so suddenly. |
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How would they get this information? They cant really. Latest is looking to US satellites for help but its needle in a hay stack unfortunatley. Cheers |
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Maybe they're referring to the 340 that ran off the runway in Canada and comparing it to the 744 that did the same in Thailand. (Different outcome on the conditions of the aircraft of course)
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Air France is a pretty reputable airline mate.
In terms of crashes/accidents they got away really luckily with Toronto but then again so did Qantas at Bangkok with no fatalities. The concorde accident which some idiots of the media are comparing is in no way comparable and as most would know was the DC10 component on runway sucked into engines that caused it. I flew with Air France long haul and short haul from Asia/Europe and within Europe and cant complement enough on their safety. |
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