Comments on: Air France 447 Tragedy

By: Global Voices Online » Air Bus AF 447: Sorrow, lack of information and sensationalism

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 21:37:52 +0000

[...] Brazilian bloggers are not the only ones discussing the accident online. From Kuwait, the blogger ZDistrict summed up his feelings. 228 people from Brazil to France on an Air France flight has vanished over [...]

By: Simon Gunson, NZ

Simon Gunson, NZ — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:03:57 +0000

CIA conspiracy ?
Alien Abduction ?

Sounds to me that you spend to much time on PPRuNe’s website listening to wannabe airline pilots ?

By: 2twentythree3

2twentythree3 — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:59:28 +0000

Very disturbing and still conflicting stories.

My thoughts are (in no particular order)

1. Alien Abduction
2. Oceanic Flight 815
3. CIA Conspiracy to use these people as guinea pigs
4. Bermuda Triangle has a wider area than we think
5. Hijacked
6. Bomb on board
7. Lost cabin pressure due to lightning, crash landed into ocean…………..

Awful tragedy and very sad, I hope we get answers soon, until then, I’m keeping my feet on the sand.

By: sad people

sad people — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:03:05 +0000

oh i dont think that its only an excident i tink thats more… and im sad for that inoccent people , for their kids… and a baby… i hope that ewerything will be explained…

By: Simon Gunson, NZ

Simon Gunson, NZ — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:51:12 +0000

Infra red satellite imagery at the time (0214GMT 01JUNE09) shows that the aircraft flew straight into a wall of towering cumulonimbus cloud reaching 55,000 feet high. This cloud called CB is deadly dangerous and destroys aircraft with violent updrafts. The pilot would have seen this cloud from hundreds of miles away on his weather radar but took no simple evasive action to avoid it.

At 0200GMT the captain reported encountering CB cloud at 35,000 feet.

Slamming any aircraft into towering CB at 453 knots is enough to overstress an airframe. The ACARS reported at 0210GMT advised that the autopilot disconnected and fly by wire changed to “alternate law.” This only happens if an aircraft gets thrown so violently by turbulence that the aircraft is at an unusual attitude or even inverted.

A flurry of ACARS meassages from 0211GMT to 0213GMT indicated failure of the ADIRU which tells the aircraft data about the flight.

Electrical failure of the power system was not signaled until 0213GMT.

At 0214GMT the aircraft still flying at 35,000ft signaled decompression.

The aircraft was structurally damaged by flying into violent turbulence. The structural damage ruptured the fuselage and the aircraft broke up from explosive decompression.

That’s what happened.

No bombs, no lightning, no failure of the navigation system.

The pilot flew it into a meterological brick wall.

By: Mohamed ElGohary

Mohamed ElGohary — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:15:25 +0000

The spot suffers daily thunderstorms, conditions like this usually blocks electromagnetic waves entirely which literally makes the plan in a signals siege. This prevents most communications from happening, or at least makes it suffer very high noise.

By: runescape gold

runescape gold — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:39:26 +0000

The same thing applies to me. I have this huge phobia and the belief that flying will be the end of me. When I

heard the news, I was so scared for those people. I hope that they will come out alive even though the news are

not so hopeful,I guess there’s nothing to do but wait.

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:49:42 +0000

Fear, helpless, horrific moment – it brings tears and heart ache to hear anyone enduring that final moment.
Really hope they were all asleep during all that moments. Its over now, their faith bring them to where they belong

By: Randy

Randy — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:06:30 +0000

I can only imagine the horror these poor people & Children suffered. How horrific.

Let us not forget the design flaw in the Airbus Rudder in reaction to stiff left to right pressure movements applied from the pilots in heavy turbulence.
Such a condition snapped the tail off a departure from JFK that entered into wake turbulence from a 747. The Severe Thunder storms in the ocean this time would of presented an even more challenging consistant condition with little options. The loss in cabin pressure indicates a breach in the aircraft skin. This Airbus model also has a known condition for the autopilot disengaging unexpectedly & caused 2 Quantas A330’s to loose altitude in a rapid desent.

Airbus fly by wire really needs to be investigated for the sake of Human Safety Not PR to save the reputation on this Aircraft Mfr.

By: joe

joe — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:42:24 +0000

Terrifying. No electricity for air compressors (loss of cabin pressure), no lights, no flight controls, (no backup hydraulic/mechanical flight controls on Airbus A330). They died in the dark, nose first.