Air France Flight 447- Airbus A330-200 Jet Crash Over The Atlantic, Search Ends. Part 3 Earlier

An Air France Flight 447- Airbus A330-200 jet crashed over the Atlantic Ocean carrying 228 people aboard on June 1, 2009 on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. It flew into thunderstorms and disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean.
It is believed to have hit severe turbulence near the equator and at the altitude it was flying, it's possible that the Air France plane flew directly into the most charged part of the storm — the top.
The plane indicated it was flying normally more than three hours later as it left Brazil radar contact, beyond the Fernando de Noronha archipelago, at 10:48 local time. It was flying at 35,000 feet and traveling at 522 mph. Signal indicated electrical problems about a half-hour later, the plane "crossed through a thunderous zone with strong turbulence. It sent an automatic message 14 minutes later reporting electrical failure and a loss of cabin pressure.
The area where the plane could have gone down was vast, in the middle of very deep Atlantic Ocean waters between Brazil and the coast of Africa.
It is the deadliest commercial airline disaster since 2001, and it is the first major accident with the Airbus A330 aircraft.
The two biggest groups of nationalities aboard were Brazilian and French, with 58 and 61 people aboard, respectively. Among the other passengers on the flight were two Americans, five British, 26 Germans and nine Chinese. Air France Flight 447, a four-year-old Airbus A330, left Rio on Sunday night with 216 passengers and 12 crew members on board.
Air France officials says "it is possible" the plane was hit by lightning, but how a lightning can bring the plane down? Search and rescue attempts continue across a wide stretch of the Atlantic Ocean.

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[tommyA350]

Not really....

1.Air France is NOT Airbus so whats the point you are trying to make?

2.Boeing have been around a lot longer than Airbus so its not really surprising an old airline like Air France has more Boeing aircraft is it??

3.American Airline Jetblue has NO Boeing aircraft and the biggest A320 fleet in the world.

Airlines in Europe buy aircraft based on whats right for them,not patriotsim - Air France probably feel Boeing better suits there needs where Jetblue is vice versa.

[youssef5671]

concord then A320 and A340 also then A330.all kinds of airbus in air france crashes

[NWOConspiracyGroup]

@cengkih78 watch?v=HSwaT_pXxkc

[ClarksonsinUSA]

This gives me a sinking feeling...We are vacationing in Europe and we normally fly Boeing aircraft mostly 777s...........They have us flying on a A330-300 this time...................

[Gulftango11]

Damn damn damn

[BLACKPEARL1249]

God Bless Them All ...

[cengkih78]

@NWOConspiracyGroup is that true? please sent me the link so i can watch it. in the documentary it said that there was a few airplanes using the same route as 447 at the time but they changed the altitude because of the big storm ahead, but the plane, due to technological error (detector failure to detect big storm behind the smaller one ahead of them so the pilot thought it was safe not to change the airplane altitude. tq for your info anyway.

[NWOConspiracyGroup]

@cengkih78 - The investigators have lied to you. The true cause is terrible and they are covering it up. Notice, no plane flew in the region for a few hours? Delayed rescue blamed by "they didnt notice it was missing for a while" And the big clue here is electrical failure. When I finish the video I will post you the link to watch. It will really make you think about flying on any aircraft globally.

[cengkih78]

however, the investigation indicates that there were several problems that lead to the disaster and consistent with evidences: bad weather (big storm at the flight area at the time), the failure of PITOT (essential device to control airplane automatically due to supercooler conditions), and pilot failure/late in handling the plane manually following the PITOT failure.

[cengkih78]

i just finished watching documentary about this air france crash on tv (australia). the expert said so far there is no solid conclusion to what happened as they couldnt not retrieve the black box.

[Daniel7681]

Another A330-200 went down...

[CaptainFaisal]

@TonyFirelli it has special shape and it can ping for 1 month but now it will no longer sound! they just have wait for the luck to find it while searching the whole crash site.