Air France Flight 447 - Lost Over The Atlantic

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Jun 06, 2009
Chocoholic wrote:Where did the rest of this thread go?
Was their more?

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er yes
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Chocoholic wrote:er yes
But it's not possible to partially delete a thread, you would see it.
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Jun 06, 2009
Okay maybe I've just gone mad!
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Jun 06, 2009
Same cause???

At 09:32 local time (01:32 UTC) on 7 October 2008, an Airbus A330-303 aircraft, registered VH-QPA, departed Singapore (SIN) on a scheduled passenger transport service to Perth (PER), Australia. On board flight QF72 were 303 passengers, nine cabin crew and three flight crew. At 12:40:28, while the aircraft was cruising at 37,000 ft, the autopilot disconnected. That was accompanied by various aircraft system failure indications.

Examination of flight data recorder information indicates that, at the time the autopilot disconnected, there was a fault with the inertial reference (IR) part of the air data inertial reference unit (ADIRU) number 1. From that time, there were many spikes in the recorded parameters from the air data reference (ADR) and IR parts of ADIRU 1. Two of the angle-of-attack spikes appear to have been associated with the uncommanded pitch-down movements of the aircraft.

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"They hadn't yet been replaced"

Airbus had recommended to all its airline customers that they replace speed-measuring instruments known as Pitot tubes on the A330, the model used for Flight 447, said Paul-Louis Arslanian, the head of the agency.

"They hadn't yet been replaced" on the plane that crashed, said Alain Bouillard, head of the French investigation. Air France declined immediate comment.
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Jun 06, 2009
It's simply a FREAK accident. The chances of everything going wrong at the same time are almost impossible but it happened
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Jun 07, 2009
Yeah, I'm also still going with the freak accident theory. These things just don't all fail at once.

It's sad, they've started to find debris and bodies now.
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Jun 07, 2009
There is a video of Air France timeline by AP.

http://www.arabianbusiness.com/557823-t ... nce-flight
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Jun 08, 2009
check out the post flight report .. or in this case current leg report..... there is emphasis on the air data disagree msg.... I do however take into notice the FCSC 1 and FCPC 1 faults along with the most crictical ALTERNATE LAW msgand also the failure of ISIS (integrated standby instrument system).
Given the new facts one would have to assume a powerful electrical surge due storms caused a freak bus failure or over load that took out a lot of essential boxes connected to the same electrical bus... cumulative resulting failures have caused the crash ...

check out this for the pfr image
http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/3410/acarsaf447e.png
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Jun 09, 2009
OLIVER ur right technically

cumulative resulting failures have caused the crash ...
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