The 447 Zone?
The next Bermuda Triangle?
In the same general area as the ill fated Flight AF447 from Rio to Paris, killing all 228 people on board, we recently wrote about another plane which experienced 30 minutes of traumatic turbulence.
Flying the same route, another Airbus F-GZCK (AF Flight 445) —carrying 12 crew and 203 passengers—experienced severe turbulence in the same zone where its ill-fated unlucky sister F-GZCP encountered storms. The last radar contact with the tragic flight was three hours and eighteen minutes after takeoff and it encountered stormy weather twelve minutes later. By comparison the most recent event occurred about four hours after leaving Rio.
When there’s a wreck on the expressway we drive around; or we find a new route.
Are the roads in the sky set in concrete?
Is this not a solvable problem?
Is there not plenty of air space between Rio and Paris? Why not change that route?
Airbus has said it will commit €12-million and €20-million to the search. Another BEA report on the crash is upcoming on December 17. Maybe the new report will discuss the possibilities of rerouting future flights around the 447 zone.
