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Data Recorder of Lost Air France Jet Unlikely to be Located
June 3, 2009 Visionmp.com news service
French aviation officials have said that they may never find the flight data recorders of an Air France jet that went missing over the Atlantic. The data recorders can provide the clearest information about what happened to the flight.
Terming the circumstances as difficult, the officials promised a thorough investigation though.
Needless to add, flight AF 447 was heading from Rio to Paris with 228 people on board on Monday when it was lost over the ocean.
Navy vessels are converging on an area some 650km (400 miles) off Brazil’s coast where the debris of the plane has been spotted.
According to Brazilian and French officials, the wreckage is undoubtedly from the missing plane.
In the meanwhile, the French civil aviation officials, at a news conference in Paris, said that they hoped that there would be an initial report by the end of June.
The officials, headed by Paul-Louis Arslanian, chief of the French civil aviation ministry’s bureau of investigation, said that no problem was reported with the flight before its take-off.
Arslanian, ruling out depending on any speculation, said that it was “essential we check and verify everything”.
He said: “This catastrophe – which is the worst that our country has witnessed in terms of aviation, took place in a very difficult region… so the investigation will not be easy… but we are not giving up.”
Arslanian said the exact time of the accident was not known, nor whether the chief pilot was at the controls
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Bond - James Bond on Wed, 3rd Jun 2009 6:41 pm
Facts: Storms were not extraordinary (per weather channel)
The problem was centered around the electrical system. It appears that there was a total failure, leading to a very quick and violent end for the flight.
Planes today are OVERDESIGNED for electrical safety (ask anyone who works in the industry) lightning could not bring down the electrical system. Similarly they are structurally OVERDESIGNED for the worst storms (in fact clunky P3′s regularly fly through hurricane walls with no detrimental effects – the AIRBUS engineers add another order of magnitude in terms of structural integrity – so please, enuff of “the storm did it” BS)
They are NOT designed to reject an EMP that exceeds those typically encountered in everyday life – i.e. the EMP from a fission reaction could damage the electrical system by overloading the Transorb Diodes in the grounding system. This is a plausible explanation. Let the investigators determine the where and why if this is the case.
RUMOR ALERT: There is a rumor floating around that the Russian on board was an FSB agent, and was bringing some “stuff” back to Moscow, that certain people did not want found, indicating a timed device took the plane down. Rumor continues with speculation that an EMP device was used. I hope that is not true because that is an aviation Achilles heel that only aviation engineers (and state security agencies) know about .
Let the conspiracy nuts have their day. I am waiting for the black box data, but would not be surprised if they do not find it, and this one gets relegated to “cold case” speculative status in a very short time.