Air France Flight 447

France’s “Liberation” newspaper revealed that experts removed nine degraded Thales probes out of 84 probes seized from Air France. The find is significant as it will possibly provide proof of lackadaisical maintenance checks by Air France. If the probes were not cleaned often enough, their condition may have contributed to the crash of [...]

Air France is one of 90 Airlines that is signatory to the Montreal Convention, a contract that governs aspects of liability in regards to international aviation. Montreal Convention is a device created mainly to amend liabilities to paid to survivor families for death or injury whilst on board an aircraft involved in an incident [...]

European Agency of Aerial Security announced Friday that it is going mandate a change in the pitot tubes that may have been responsible for the crash of Flight 447. Of the three sensors, all a330/A340 will have to be equipped with at least two American Goodrich Pitot sensors
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The BEA announced that the Air France debris that has reached France will be sent to the Toulouse Center of Aeronautics for testing.
Reports are that the mountainous topography of the ocean floor where the black boxes is being compared to the Andes Mountains.

I wonder what goes through the mind of a pilot who is getting flawed information back from the pitot tubes right before systems shut down on a plane where the plane knows best and the pilot can’t do anything about it.
This is not pilot error.
This is design error.
Common sense tells me that eventually a fly-by-wire [...]

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This is what the crew was faced with.

The Honeywell Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System known as ACARS shows how large jetliners completely depend on computer data to fly. Is smart technology too smart?
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A Blackout incident occurred near the area where the plane of Air France and disappeared with the same model of aircraft, an Airbus 330 . For over an hour the crew attempted to revive the computerized system that controls the TV monitors on board and failed. Airbus, just like the Air France [...]