Air France Flight 447

Spiegel Online has not forgotten the victims of Flight 447.
They’re running an article, The Curse of Flight AF445
Victims’ Families Distraught at Air France’s Thoughtlessness on the latest faux pas of Air France.
Air France decided to be big about it, and send the victims surviving families tickets to the June 1 grand unveiling of the Paris [...]

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 [...]

Since the beginning of the searches on 2 April:

Orion, the towed sonar based on the « Anne Candies », has covered 2 800 km2 ;
The three Remus, autonomous underwater vehicles based on the « Seabed Worker » have made forty dives and covered an area of around 3 000 km2.

The meteorological conditions in the search [...]

n the media, assumptions have been made on the causes of the AF 447 flight accident, expressed by the head of a minority pilots’ union and a retired pilot from another airline.
Air France has made it clear that two inquiries are currently underway in France. One of them, the “technical” inquiry, is conducted by the [...]

French Minister Dominique Bussereau has said he wants the investigators, the French investigation agency BEA, Air France and planemaker Airbus to continue searching for the flight recorders of AF 447.
The $13.3 million third phase of the undersea search is still in progress. The search vehicles involved are equipped with sonar search capacity and can sustain [...]

David Mearns who has found more than 45 wrecks in the past 15 years is partnered with searchers for the Air France Airbus plane that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean in 2009.
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution formed to locate the deep-sea wreck site of Air France Flight 447. Technology employed includes three [...]

Podhurst Orseck has filed 23 wrongful death lawsuits in Florida on behalf of victims families against Airbus. The cases maintain that design and manufacturing defects stranded pilots with incorrect information, rendering them incapable of maintaining altitude and air speed, resulting in the fatal crash. The firm has more cases to file.
In the Air [...]

Podhurst Orseck has filed twenty-eight lawsuits in Florida Federal Court on behalf of families of those who lost their lives in the Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in June 2009. Airbus, the airplane’s manufacturer, “knew about problems with the plane ranging from faulty radar to defective speed and ice sensors”. [...]

Podhurst Orseck has filed 23 wrongful death lawsuits in Florida on behalf of victims families against Airbus. The cases maintain that design and manufacturing defects stranded pilots with incorrect information, rendering them incapable of maintaining altitude and air speed, resulting in the fatal crash. The firm has more cases to file.
In the Air [...]

The BEA is blaming “administrative and technical difficulties” and poor weather for another delay in the next phase of the Black Box search, which was supposed to have begun last month, but now seems to be imminent.
The Seabed Worker and the Anne Candies will be instrumental in this phase.
To see the location [...]