Air France Flight 447 » Abdel Kader Benotmane (with Otmane Teguadon)

Air France Flight 447: Safety Standards Under Scrutiny. Jury is still out.

George Hatcher posted this in Editorial on January 2nd, 2010

Not that the case has literally gone before a jury yet. But in the investigation, pre-judgment is pending. The investigations and frictions continue. Theories circulate, even without the benefit of the input of the lost black boxes. Isn’t judgement supposed to be suspended until ALL the fact gathering is complete?
If nothing [...]

Forty minutes after take-off, a four-minute-long series of automatic radio messages began transmission. The problems and warnings transmitted to Air Traffic Control were all automated messages; there was no direct human contact. The Airbus is a fly by wire plane, in other words, when there is a crucial event, the system defaults to automated control. Currently what happened on that flight is under conjecture. Theories range from bad weather, lightning, failure of pitot (speed sensors), to the ruptured tail rudder. Over 400 pieces of the wreckage have been found. Only a small percentage of the mortal remains of the passengers have been recovered.

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