Air France A.330 missing
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Air France A.330 missing
An Air France A.330 with 288 people on board is missing
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8076848.stm
Doesn't sound good.
Garry
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8076848.stm
Doesn't sound good.
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Re: Air France A.330 missing
I can't remember the last time an airliner went missing... very worrying
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Just hope that it pans out OK but it does look bleak.
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Re: Air France A.330 missing
Does anyone know if airliners are fitted with EPIRB's or similar devices?
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Re: Air France A.330 missing
Ben - yes - ELTs x 2. Although whether 1 of those is an automatic ELT depends on country of registration and when the first C of A was issued.
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Thanks Rich. I must admit I'd have thought they could pinpoint exactly where a modern aircraft had disappeared, I'd have thought something as basic as last location would be easy. :think:
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My thoughts exactly, Ben. Reading the headlines this morning was like reading the news from the 1930's. :-(Ben Watson wrote:I can't remember the last time an airliner went missing... very worrying
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Re: Air France A.330 missing
Outside radar cover it gets a little more problematic, you only know where they were last time they told you.I'd have thought something as basic as last location would be easy.
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Re: Air France A.330 missing
The media here is reporting the crew reprted a catastrophic electrical failure -- the crew probably didnt -- the information would have been sent on datalink to AF maintenance by the Bus itself -- also such an electrical failure would also show if the aircraft had suffered damage from the severe turbulence that it supposedly had been encountering along the convergence zone...Its academic -- like others my first thought was "Aeroplanes don't just disappear" however the South Atlantic is large and many aircraft have disappeared there -- nothing new --- ask BSAA....(And thats NOT meant as sarcasm or that I have started wearing tin foil hats) we take to much for granted these days -- Nature still beats technology hands down.
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