Air France Drops the Ball
We really would prefer to have brand new good news about the search for flight 447 every day, so that we could present good news every single day, instead of bad news once a month. However, since the June announcement that the search was over, the Air France Flight 447 news has been slim pickings. We have observed that the BEA and Air France handlers have come a long way from the immediate response with the airline providing trained counselors and doctors, updating the Air France web pages to provide information. Now the bell-ringers are curiously silent, hoping, no doubt, that the families and the public will cease and desist–stop bugging them to keep looking for the lost plane, and the lost answers.
But those who were mourning are still mourning. Those who wanted answers still want answers. Those who were dissatisfied with theory are still dissatisfied with theory. Let us not forget that there is concrete evidence somewhere. Somewhere the black boxes are still waiting.
So now we can report progress. Well, not actually progress. Not even a promise of progress. More like a promise that the powers that be might consider progress. In September. They will consider looking for AF 447 again. In September. Pending the results of a report.
Dominique Bussereau, junior transport minister addressed the families of the victims, “I will be receiving in early September some facts from the BEA that will allow me to decide on a possible new search,” BEA director Jean-Paul Troadec claimed he was in favor of a fourth search.
So search one failed; search two failed; search three failed. They seem to be dragging out beginning a fourth search. What else can we do but wait and see?
* ASD NEWS, PARIS, July 12, 2010 France considers new search of AF447 black boxes
