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:cry_2: c'est choquant jpm1!

 

 

This is one of the scariest things I've ever heard.

 

I speak english,french and arabic...so every single word was clear to me...

 

RIP all victims.

 

j'ai réflechi avant de poster , finalement j'ai décidé de poster car la cause du crash ne doit pas être passée sous silence . perso j'ai arrêté la vidéo quand ils disent "on touche l'eau" pas pu aller plus loin

trans : i thought about it before posting , finally i did it the crash origin shouldn't be passed under silence . personnally i stopped when they say "we touch the water" couldn't watch more

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Now the pilots are facing 10 years in jail...

 

seems the pilot "bet" on his engines restart , if he had chosen the security to glide to the nearest airport he would probably have been able to land at Palermo as there was a tail wind that day (a french pilot recreated the situation and proved it was possible) .. sad article

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It amazes me the perseverance of all involved in the search. The causes of an accident like this cannot be ignored, and they are really committed to it, even though its like searching a needle in an ocean.

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At the moment it's not clear if it's still readable though.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13255673

 

that's obvious that after two years

, none can be sure at 100% . but it's very likely that it gives at least few informations

 

It amazes me the perseverance of all involved in the search. The causes of an accident like this cannot be ignored, and they are really committed to it, even though its like searching a needle in an ocean.

 

political . if another same type aircraft crashes for identical reason , it's the in place government's end

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I hope it will help solve the mystery of this accident; there are a lots of airplanes of the same model flying around the world and we still don't know if it was a technical issue.

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Yes, indeed very, very important find!

 

Fantastic work of the search party! I hope we will come to know what happened with that flight.

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An article here (via AFP) says a second black box has been recovered.

 

BEA chief Jean-Paul Troadec said says the recorder was "in good condition".

 

"The chassis, the module and even the underwater locator beacon is there," he said.

 

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engineeringnews.co.za has some recent coverage of it, including this article.

 

The French air accident investigation agency, the Bureau d’Enquetes et d’Analyses (BEA), announced on Wednesday that the chassis of the Flight Data Recorder (FDR) from crashed Air France Airbus A330-200 F-GZCP had been found at the bottom of the South Atlantic.

 

Unfortunately, the Crash Survivable Memory Unit (CSMU) is no longer attached to the FDR chassis and has not yet been located. Retrieval of the CSMU is of great importance for the investigation of the accident, as it contains all the data from the aircraft’s instruments.

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The FDR is one of the two “Black Boxes” (which are actually orange in colour) which are carried by commercial aircraft, the other being the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR). As yet, there is no indication of the location of the CVR.

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Recorder data is intact: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13412061

 

"Following operations to open, extract, clean and dry the memory cards from the flight recorders, BEA safety investigators were able to download the data over the weekend," the BEA air investigation agency said in a statement.

 

"These downloads gathered all of the data from the flight data recorder, as well as the whole recording of the last two hours of the flight from the cockpit voice recorder."

While there'll be an interim term in the next few months, the full report isn't expected until next year, with analysis of the data expected to take several months.
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A slight derail - but since this flight hasn't been the only one going down due to sensor-problems:

- I don't understand why the aircraft industry hasn't been more concerned over the fact that these sensors, monitoring and automation is now critical to stay airborne.

 

The combine factors of:

a) Automation of a lot of the standard procedures & operations.

b) Putting either a computer or a human to monitor it (Airbus vs Boeing) - making decitions based on flawed sensors.

c) Not having implemented sufficient faulty sensor detection

d) Not sufficiently training pilots to detect faulty sensors together with safe standards to stay airborne even with critical sensors going offline.

 

I hope the industry learns - and quickly.

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Reading the article on BBC's news site it seems very odd. Easy for a desktop pilot to say I know but, numerous time there where stall warnings but they never increase speed, it just mentions that they decreased throttle. Why would you ever decrease throttle at a stall warning? Also, twice after there was a stall warning they say the tried to "raise the nose".

 

Like Sov13t says, its like they just stalled from 37000 foot to 0

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Conflicting feedback. How to decide what information which is correct - and what information is false.

Quite dangerous situation - a wrong choice and you may end up in a situation you cannot get out of.

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The basic fact is that staying airborne at 37.000 ft is a completely different ballgame than doing the same at say 4000 ft. The wrong speed can very quickly lead to a stall. The small animation on this French site explains how it could happen that the pilots failed to react: the plane just fell from the sky, it was all over at once.

 

http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2011/05/27/01016-20110527ARTFIG00543-le-scenario-officiel-de-la-catastrophe-de-l-af447.php

 

I wonder if we could replicate such a thing in FSX.

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