Bodies & Debris fouond from flight 447

[dave44]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8087303.stm

Two bodies and debris have been found from the Air France plane which went missing over the Atlantic last Monday, the Brazilian air force has said.

Experts on human remains are on their way to examine the find.

"We confirm the recovery from the water of debris and bodies from the Air France plane," Col Amaral said at a news conference in the northern city of Recife.

He later added that two male bodies had been found, as well as objects linked to passengers known to be on the flight, including a suitcase with a plane ticket.

A seat was also found, but there has been no confirmation that it was from the flight.

 

[uni-corn]

I guess they are finally getting to the bottom of things now.

Did they figure out why it went down yet?

 

[Che~]

wowfinally

 

[caucasian_chad]

Its gonna be pretty hard to find the black box in the ocean.

 

[anxju]

dont fall for it!!! this is all charles whidmore's doing!

 

[SKIDUBAIGUY]

No, but the main computer systems and the backup isis computer systems failed. With the weather and the dry updrafts they would have travelled through 15 minutes of heavy turbelance before they exited the storm, although they never did. Also, the cabin depressurised and some of the slats on the right wing ripped off, basically everything went wrong, and it almost impossible to fly an airbus without the computer systems running. The captain was very experianced and due to retire this year, so obviously the situation was out of his hands, but the could, infact SHOULD have flown around the sotrm like the klm and iberia aircraft that had done so at the same time, bad judgement on his part.

 

[anxju]

yeah, i believe that airbuses pretty much fly themselves once theyre in the air. so without the computer systems they were pretty much effed

 

[pmills]

word on the street was airspeed measurement failures

 

[SKIDUBAIGUY]

Well with the mainframe system and the isis backup system both failed you wont be able to see airspeed no, neither which way up you are, or anything thats going on for that matter.

 

[fujarome]

well actually most modern passenger aircraft pretty much fly themselves once they get up. I've also been reading that there were faulty pitot tubes or something, and that airbus had sent out warnings. Air France was still in the process of replacing them on the A330s but hadn't gotten to this one yet.

 

[AK-Freeskier]

Haha, I don't know if everyone is going to get that. Don't worry though, you are not alone in your theories....

 

[WHO_DAT]

A good family friend is a pilot and flies the same size plane and he said flying through weather like that is almost routine. So something was seriously wrong with the plane itself. I'm sure the weather contributed, but definitely wasn't the real reason.