Air France flight disappears

Armchair_QB · Jun 10, 2009

Inky_Wretch said:

If it was terrorism, wouldn't a group have claimed it by now?
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Not necessarily.

Inky_Wretch · Jun 11, 2009

Armchair_QB said:

Inky_Wretch said:

If it was terrorism, wouldn't a group have claimed it by now?
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Not necessarily.
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Why not?

TigerVols · Jun 11, 2009

Anyone notice the pix that ran in many papers yesterday, showing the tail section in the water being swarmed over by Brazilian sailors? One of the guys was wearing nothing but a Speedo. How cold is the water there?

2muchcoffeeman · Jun 11, 2009

TigerVols said:

Anyone notice the pix that ran in many papers yesterday, showing the tail section in the water being swarmed over by Brazilian sailors? One of the guys was wearing nothing but a Speedo. How cold is the water there?
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Mid-Atlantic, near the equator ... ballpark figure is "bathwater."

Armchair_QB · Jun 11, 2009

Inky_Wretch said:

Armchair_QB said:

Inky_Wretch said:

If it was terrorism, wouldn't a group have claimed it by now?
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Not necessarily.
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Why not?
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It could have been a lone nut acting on his own. Not likely, but possible. Think Richard Reid.

It could have been a test run prior to a much bigger attack.

YankeeFan · May 1, 2011

Nearly two years later & the Flight Data Recorder has been found:

French accident investigators said Sunday that they had retrieved a key component from one of the flight recorders of an Air France jet that crashed in the mid-Atlantic almost two years ago, reviving hopes that it could help explain why the plane went down.

The French Bureau of Investigations and Analysis said the memory unit of the flight data recorder was found early Sunday and brought to the surface, although it will be more than a week before it can be examined.

Investigators were initially disheartened last week when an underwater drone located the recorder’s protective housing without the cylindrical memory module attached.

But on Sunday, the mood at the bureau’s headquarters was charged with anticipation.

“This is a very happy surprise,” Jean-Paul Troadec, the bureau’s director, said in an interview.

Investigators had said the memory unit was probably dislodged from the housing when the plane hit the water, making it less likely that it would be found amid the rest of the wreckage, on a sandy plain nearly two and a half miles below the surface. “We had been expecting a lengthy search,” Mr. Troadec said.

Photos of the memory module showed that it had suffered little exterior corrosion, he said, though it was not clear whether the memory chip inside had been damaged. If still readable, it could provide crucial information on the plane’s position, speed, altitude and direction when it ran into trouble.

“First we need to know if we can read it,” Mr. Troadec said.

The plane’s other black box, the cockpit voice recorder, has not been found.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/world/americas/02airfrance.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
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