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A merchant ship traveling between Uruguay and the United Kingdom found a “medium size” piece of debris from the Air France plane crash site in the Atlantic Ocean, the Brazilian military said yesterday.
The Gammagas, a ship sailing under the flag of Antigua and Barbuda, recovered the debris, which will be transferred to the Brazilian Navy, Vice Admiral Edison Lawrence told reporters in Recife, northeast Brazil. Lawrence didn’t say from which part of the plane the piece came.
For the first time, Brazil’s military used the expression “human remains” rather than bodies in yesterday’s briefing.
“The conditions in which the last ones were found do not allow us to say body,” Cardoso said.
Identifying the Bodies
Fifty bodies have been recovered and 37 of them are in Recife for identification by authorities, the military said yesterday. Another seven are on the Brazilian island of Fernando de Noronha island, nearer the crash site, for “pre- identification” procedures.
Cardoso said he will meet today in Recife with French ambassador Pierre-Jean Vandoorne, a diplomat named by the French government to follow the case and serve as a go-between with the families and authorities.
Shades of the movie "Final Destination." Johanna Ganthaler, an Italian womand and a pensioner from Bolzano-Bozen province and her husband Kurt were on vacation in Brazil. The couple was supposed to take the doomed Air France Flight 447 back to Paris. However, they missed the plane and took a different one home instead.
Unfortunately for the two, it was just a brief reprieve. Johanna Ganthaler died in a car crash in Austria a few days later.
Originally posted by BlasteR
Woman Missing Air France Flight Dies in Car Crash Days Later
Shades of the movie "Final Destination." Johanna Ganthaler, an Italian womand and a pensioner from Bolzano-Bozen province and her husband Kurt were on vacation in Brazil. The couple was supposed to take the doomed Air France Flight 447 back to Paris. However, they missed the plane and took a different one home instead.
Unfortunately for the two, it was just a brief reprieve. Johanna Ganthaler died in a car crash in Austria a few days later.
-ChriS
Originally posted by BlasteR
This is, obviously, problematic. The beacon signal won't last forever. The data on the recorders should remain intact and undamaged. But that won't matter if they can't find them. We're talking depths over 10,000 feet here which would make any effort to find them nearly impossible after the beacon ceases to operate.
-ChriS
[edit on 14-6-2009 by BlasteR]
The cryptic lines contain chilling meaning.
First, the auto pilot system disengaged. Then came a basic auto flight message warning. Next, something within the flight control computer failed. Then, warning flags appeared on the primary flight displays of the captain and co-pilot. Then the rudder exceeds the limits of normal flight. And on it goes.
"With all of these failures, they don't have the information that they need to fly the aircraft in a safe environment," Darryl says. "If the pilot or first officer don't have any display functioning, then they're flying blind in the night. ... You're trying to fly the aircraft with no technology."
The last message received is a cryptic "213100206ADVISORY" warning at 02:14 GMT. It indicates loss of cabin pressure.
"There's so much going on, the pilots don't know what to do other than take a hold of the stick and fly the aircraft, because the airplane is not flying itself," Darryl said. "If this was happening in a clear day in the middle of the day, you'd still be in serious trouble, but at least you'd know if you were climbing or descending."
The National Transportation Safety Board has launched investigations into two recent incidents in which airspeed and altitude indications in Airbus A330s might have malfunctioned, adding to the suspicion that an instrument failure could have led to the June 1 loss of an Air France A330-200 (Flight 447) in the Atlantic Ocean, killing 228 people.
The first incident occurred on May 21, when TAM Airlines Flight 8091, flying from Miami, Fla., to São Paulo, Brazil, lost primary speed and altitude information while in cruise flight. The flight crew reported an abrupt drop in indicated outside air temperature, followed by the loss of the Air Data Reference System and disconnections of the autopilot and autothrust, along with the loss of speed and altitude information. The crew used backup instruments for five minutes, before they restored primary data and landed in São Paulo with no further incident.
The NTSB said a similar incident might have occurred in a Northwest Airlines A330 during a June 23 flight from Hong Kong to Tokyo. That aircraft also landed safely. Investigators have begun collecting data recorder information, aircraft condition monitoring system messages, crew statements and weather information from both cases.
There's absolutely NOTHING about this thread that could be deemed a "hoax."
Shame on ATS for their censorship.