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Wreckage Found From 2009 Air France Crash

It could shed light on what brought down jet, killing 228

By John Johnson,  Newser Staff

Posted Apr 3, 2011 4:48 PM CDT

(Newser) – Investigators might finally get a better idea of why an Air France flight crashed into the Atlantic nearly two years ago and killed all 228 aboard. A fourth deep-sea search led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has yielded plane parts believed to be from the Airbus 330, reports the BBC. It's not clear yet whether that includes the black boxes, however. Flight 447 crashed in a storm en route from Brazil to Paris on June 1, 2009. Click for more background.

A 2009 aerial view of an oil slick suspected to be from Air France's flight 447.
A 2009 aerial view of an oil slick suspected to be from Air France's flight 447.   (AP Photo/Johnson Barros, Brazilian Air Force)
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JoeQ
Apr 3, 2011 6:02 PM CDT
Incredible luck. A needle in a haystack. What would be astounding is if they found the blackboxes and it turned out to have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the pitot tubes freezing up. Seems like they need better blackboxes, too. Ones that squalk to a ground base, or ones with extended life batteries that ping after long scheduled intervals.
bananana
Apr 3, 2011 5:47 PM CDT
Don't believe it -- Charles Widmore put a fake wreck there for his own nefarious purposes. Nice try, Charles.
zdaydream
Apr 3, 2011 5:00 PM CDT
The BBC story says it: "The search has been financed jointly by Air France and Airbus. It involves dives to depths of up to 4,000m (13,120ft) with the use of special robots to examine the ocean floor between Brazil and West Africa." That's some depth to go down to. <:-)
 

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