Any updates on the Airbus lost in the Atlantic?

Don't know if it was noted, yet, but Airbus was called before an investigating magistrate in a formal probe.

Just about time for the search to re-commence, too.

CW

 

Already posted twice in this thread.... great blog. Been reading Captain Dave for over a year.

Jedi

 

Looks like they started another search today.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/france-begins-4th-search-for-air-france-jet-that-crashed-off-brazils-coast-2-years-ago/2011/03/23/ABHKCYIB_story.html

 

Honest answer: France just wants press for "trying". I do not believe they really
want to ever find anything concrete...

Jedi

 

Found something:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12953432

 

Amazing. Hope they can find the black boxes and unlock the key to this crash. However, if there is an inherent flaw in the Airbus design, that's a serious problem.

CW

 

On cnn as well...

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/04/03/france.jet.wreckage/index.html?hpt=T2

 

WSJ says they found the wreck site.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703712504576242342012499756.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLTopStories

 

I am sure that they knew where it was 2 years go.............

 

Apparently, they've even found bodies in the fuselege...

 

Well, that sucks, but it's not exactly a surprise, either. I'm sure they'd be in rough shape.

CW

 

And everyone involved has kept it a secret? No way.

 

Why not ?

Much larger secrets have been kept by more people for much longer periods of time.

 

Photos have been released from the underwater wreckage field.

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2011/04/04/355094/pictures-first-images-of-air-france-a330-crash-site.html

 

No, the water is dark and cold at that depth.......R.I.P.

 

The containers recovered closed showed that the passenger oxygen masks had not been released. There had been no cabin depressurisation.

 

Sad indeed felt like i was looking in a tomb

 

The UFO's landing at Area 51 is a hoax!

 

Not from so many different organizations and countries.

 

I've never been involved with recovery of remains. So, certainly, I must defer, and I don't wish this to turn morbid, but, even so, there are organisms that consume detritus on the ocean floor. I have to believe these remains are still identifiable (dental records, IDs, still belted into their seats, etc.), but probably not from casual comparison to photos.

CW

 

From what little I know about it the lack of oxygen and deep dark cold will preserve remains for a while. At the depths these remains are at I don't believe Hag Fish are there so maybe they can be identified.

 

For the sake of their families, I hope they can make positive IDs and put their minds at rest. However, on old ship wrecks, the remains are left where they lie, generally. Often, they're treated as grave sites. I wonder if that was discussed? I mean, I'm not sure what more can be learned from a forensic analysis of the remains. So, the questions becomes, I suppose, whether to leave or recover them for other reasons.

Regardless, it's a tough thing. Concentrate on the black boxes. Learn what can be learned. Prevent something like this from happening again.

CW

 

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/04/13/france.jet.tail.found/index.html?hpt=T2

Fingers crossed for some boxes...working.

 

They are going to (attempt to) recover as much of the aircraft as they can.

Many of the bodies, they say, are still strapped in seats in the remains of the plane...

They'll have to bring bodies up. No choice.

 

Found one of the recorders, but it is missing its memory module?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-27/air-france-crash-search-finds-black-box-recorder-without-data.html