Air France pilot 3 last message before crash revealed

http://tinyurl.com/freeonlinetv2009 - Air France has told families of passengers aboard Flight 447 to abandon any hope of survivors.

A counsellor present at a meeting with Air France's CEO Pierre-Henri Gourgeon says he told the families that the plane broke apart either in the air or when it slammed into the ocean's surface.

Guillaume Denoix de Saint-Marc, who was asked by Paris prosecutors to help counsel family members, said Thursday "what is clear is that there was no landing. There's no chance the escape slides came out."

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[1204venki]

God bless their souls.

[2addicted2UTUBE]

even though I have read about other air crashes, this particular disaster has really upset me a lot, and I want the black box to be found soon so that concerned people all over the world would heave a sigh of relief, RIP

[Elitebjjchris]

This accident was in fact pilot error. The pilot tried to climb above the thunderstorm and in doing so exceeded the maximum altitude for this aircraft, I believe they were at 38,000 feet. At this altitude air is to thin the generate enough lift and thrust and the aircraft stalled. The fatal error was that the pilot continued to hold back on the stick preventing the aircraft from regaining airspeed, and control. Correct measures would have been to descend to increase airspeed.

[Spatsy123]

Minor cracks in some of the wing components. With modern materials you can locate and fix these cracks before they become lethal, unlike metal alloys. Modern planes a very safe, doesn't matter what name is on the bonnet. Boeing and Airbus make good craft - now if you want to take a risk how about Tupelov? ;-O

[theothefox]

well, an Airbus A380 was grounded in Australia because of cracks in the wings, so i think Boeing is not bad Oh and when was the A380 launched, not that long ago...

[thecompfox]

@hassannassaralah Boeing are just beginning to use composite parts in their new aircraft designs so you better get used to it. The Airbus track record is much safer than Boeing will ever be.

[thecompfox]

@MegaDucky26 Haha, you silly American's. Boeing is an aging relic being outpaced by the superb Airbus company. You keep your boeings to fly around America, the rest of the world is moving on.

[MegaDucky26]

Airbus sucks, fly on a boeing and you will get to where you want to go. God bless the USA! After all it all started at kitty hawk.

[codzomz]

I know many people say pilot error all the time.... but this actually was.. There is something called a pitot tube on an airplane, it measures both airspeed and altitude as well as change in vertical (VSI) when flying in clear conditions, pitot heat is not required, but when entering visible moisture of any kind, pitot heat must be applied to avoid blockage, but the pilots were very distracted with the high altitude storm, they never applied it, therefore blocking it, and all 3 gauges failed...

[shaindaman13]

And maybe this reporter can figure out who stole his Lucky Charms.

[flightoffancy31]

@hassannassaralah While airbus has had their share of incidents, one cannot simply claim that one plane is safer than another without sufficient evidence proving so. For example, this incident involved the formation of ice upon the pitot tubes of the aircraft (a crucial instrument that all aircraft, even small single engine private aircraft have). The ice formed when the aircraft unwittingly flew into a thunderstorm. Bottom line is that this accident could have happened to almost any aircraft.

[Frietpan]

i dont trust airbusses either so much bad news about it